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LED's; How bright is too bright?
MYX:
It can never be too bright. Laser beams should shoot out of your CP. ;)
Seriously though, If you are using a LEDWiz, you can also turn down the brightness value.
somunny:
Thanks for the info. I'm gonna hook 'em up and if they're too bright, I'll put another resistor value in series until I get what I'm looking for.
If it's Pink Floyd at the Lazarium then so be it!
Steve
Tahnok:
--- Quote from: MYX on March 11, 2006, 03:51:54 pm ---It can never be too bright. Laser beams should shoot out of your CP. ;)
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When done, your CP should look something like:
southpaw13:
Interesting----is there something simple you can put in-line to adjust the brightness? I have the same problem with them shooting up to the ceiling. I got them hooked up to 12v with a resistor. How can I do brightness control without an LEDWIZ?
Thanks,
Southpaw
somunny:
--- Quote from: southpaw13 on March 11, 2006, 11:18:54 pm ---Interesting----is there something simple you can put in-line to adjust the brightness? I have the same problem with them shooting up to the ceiling. I got them hooked up to 12v with a resistor. How can I do brightness control without an LEDWIZ?
Thanks,
Southpaw
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Higher value resistor will dim it down (or kill it all together if the resistance is too high). I don't know what your LED values are but I would think that you could use this calculator;
http://led.linear1.org/1led.wiz
... and drop the amount of current that you want. If you're passing 30mA now, try using a resistor that will only pass 15 or 20 mA.
Steve
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