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mark8623

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Joined: July 31, 2006

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Posted: July 31, 2006 at 11:42 PM / IP Logged

i have 5mm led on a quad. I never got them wet never even took quad out. 20 off of my batery. i have them all directly to negative and a wire to positive going to a rocker then branching out. I fliped them on and i saw smoke. I looked and it burned the caseing right off the wire ad the 16 guage wire was fried any info on why something like this would happen and hot to prevent it.

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ff-mike

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Posted: August 01, 2006 at 3:38 PM / IP Logged

You cannot wire an LED directly to the battery, a current limiting resistor is needed.

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mark8623

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Posted: August 01, 2006 at 8:41 PM / IP Logged

they are built in the led only the negs were wired the positive is the 1 that fried.

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