Siege36
Apr 10 2008, 11:22 PM
Just wanted to make sure that this circuit will work for my HDD which is 5V before i wire them all together
the circles are blue LEDs. sorry i didnt want to get to fancy with the drawing.
ausmods
Apr 11 2008, 01:13 AM
The wiring looks fine, youll just have to check the value of the resistor... I would work it for you, but im far too lazy.. Its just a simple application of ohms law... You dont know the resistance, you have 5v, and you want 15-20mA running though the LEDs (Check that one, cause it depends on the LED's you have)
I do know though that if you connect the LED's to 12v a 100 ohm resistor will work fine.
jopotus
Apr 11 2008, 06:58 AM

do it like this. it should work best.
resistors are 27 ohm 1/8 watt.
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