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LED's; How bright is too bright?

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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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