5- LED series

[Yoshilime M.R.]

Sup people.

For a school project, im planning on wiring 5 led's.

Now, can someone teach me and make me a diagram on how to wire 5 up to a battery and on/off switch? Will i need any resistors? Thanks

 

[Mako321]

Positive from battery--> Switch(This one should be easy to get)---->5 seperate cable leads(we're wiring them in parallel, beetches!)----->Resistors on each one(somebody else will go get the resistance, but don't we need to know the voltage of the batteries?)----->Positive From The LED, one led for every resistor(buddy system)--->Connect to the Negative from batteries

OWAIT
series
do all that but have only one resistor and daisy chain all the led's.

 

[Yoshilime M.R.]

Can you ms-paint that?

 

[Joeyjoe9876]

 

[Mako321]

thanks to LSDiodes.com, everybody!

 

[Yoshilime M.R.]

Ok, awesome. So for 12 volts , i'll need...8 double A's

What resistors? can i use super glue to glue wires down to stuff?

 

[Basement_Modder]

I'd say like a 60-ish Ω resistor would cover it...

 

[Mako321]

You should really try soldering wires, easy wiring here.(good practice circuit)

 

[Yoshilime M.R.]

I dont think i have access to soldering stuff. ^0-ish resistor huh?

Anyone know if i can get everything at ratshack?

 

[Basement_Modder]

Yes.

 

[Aguiluz]

http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz

An LED array calculator. Punch in how many LEDs you will use, the source voltage, diode forward voltage, diode forward current and it will spit out a diagram for you, resistors calculated as well.