LED lights fun

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Topic: LED lights fun

Posted By: satfrk32
Subject: LED lights fun
Date Posted: March 01, 2006 at 6:00 PM

Quickkkkkk question.

I bought 6, small LED lights from PepBoys. They're small, and take a 12v current to them. I have them hooked up to a switch and such and will have 2 in my cup holders and 1 in each of my 4 air vents.

My problem is...I have no idea what resistor I need because the package & details only tells me they take a 12v current. They are roughly 1/2 cm wide, pretty small LED's. I can't use the calculators cause I have no other information on the LED's.

So what resistors should I buy?

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Posted By: coppellstereo
Date Posted: March 01, 2006 at 10:40 PM

can you get on pepboys' website and show us what you bought? are they JUST led's or is there something else attached to them, or are they prewired?

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Posted By: satfrk32
Date Posted: March 02, 2006 at 7:41 AM

They are pre-wired and each has black wrapping around where the wires meets up with the light itself. I checked and under the wrap are small resistors. Thanks for the help anyway coppell!

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cheers!

Posted By: KarTuneMan
Date Posted: March 02, 2006 at 12:03 PM

get some from vision....they are called rivets...

www.visioninet.com

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Posted By: coppellstereo
Date Posted: March 07, 2006 at 10:41 PM

www.oznium.com has the individual lights for $.99 or you could buy loose led's and resistors

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Posted By: corey497
Date Posted: March 08, 2006 at 3:09 PM

if you got them at pep boys, 99.9% chance they are for 12v...

Posted By: ian m
Date Posted: March 08, 2006 at 5:31 PM

a 5mm led should need a 470 resistor

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