Timeline for LED resistor calculator wrong?
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Jun 18, 2015 at 18:06 | answer | added | raghavkap | timeline score: -3 | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 20:48 | comment | added | yo' | @EMFields I wouldn't dare myself to use a 0.25W resistor in a 0.26W setting, so I left some headroom there :) | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 20:45 | comment | added | EM Fields | @yo': Four times more. | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 20:14 | comment | added | Spoon | Does it need a heat sink ? what type of LED is it ? ( a clear plastic housing or for mounting on a heat sink) | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 19:46 | answer | added | EM Fields | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 19:26 | comment | added | Grabul | Don't take it bad but... Try inverting polarity :-) | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 19:25 | answer | added | Majenko | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 19:24 | comment | added | yo' | (12V-2V)/(30mA) = 333Ohm, so your calculations are correct. The max power 1W is 3 times more than what you need, so you should be fine. You have a mistake somewhere else. | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 19:21 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 25, 2015 at 19:19 | history | asked | Izak Nieuwoudt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |