Recommended · for beginners

Why use Current Limiting Resistors | AddOhms #8

Name: Why use Current Limiting Resistors | AddOhms #8
Channel: AddOhms
Description: Helpful introduction to powering LEDs, explaining why current limiting resistors matter and why parallel strings can misbehave.

AddOhms

Why people recommend it

Helpful introduction to powering LEDs, explaining why current limiting resistors matter and why parallel strings can misbehave.

Watch for: Suits newcomers wiring LEDs for the first time

If you liked this

Why Parallel LEDs Each Need Their Own Resistors - Simply Put

Simply Put 8 people · 7 months · since Jul 2022
Why all solar panels are secretly LEDs (and all LEDs are secretly solar panels)

Steve Mould 17 people · 14 months · since Feb 2019
Using LEDs as mains indicator lights on 120V and 230V (live demos)

bigclivedotcom 11 people · 11 months · since Oct 2017
HACKED!: Adding a Current Limit Feature to a Buck/Boost Converter

GreatScott! 11 people · 10 months · since Jan 2018
Raspberry Pi - How to use the GPIO

RaspberryPiIVBeginners 9 people · 8 months · since Jun 2012
Series circuit - 3 LEDs

Henryk Gasperowicz 8 people · 8 months · since Dec 2011

Why people recommend it

If you liked this

Why Parallel LEDs Each Need Their Own Resistors - Simply Put

Why all solar panels are secretly LEDs (and all LEDs are secretly solar panels)

Using LEDs as mains indicator lights on 120V and 230V (live demos)

HACKED!: Adding a Current Limit Feature to a Buck/Boost Converter

Raspberry Pi - How to use the GPIO

Series circuit - 3 LEDs