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#79048 - 09/03/2002 20:25 Running a LED off of 240 Volts question
number6 old hand Registered: 30/04/2001 Posts: 745 Loc: In The Village or sometimes: A...	I'm no electronics expert but I have a situation whereby I want to run a LED off a 240Volt power supply [and before anyone asks, its got nothing to do with Empegs, docking stations or anything of this ilk ;-)) ]. Can you use a ordinary '5 volt' type LED or do you need special 'high voltage' versions to stop the LED shorting out? And if so, then How big a resistance should the resistor be, and what sort of 'wattage' (1/4 Watt ok) We are talking a regular (rectangular) Green LED here that runs fine on 3 volts.
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Running a LED off of 240 Volts question	number6	09/03/2002 20:25
Re: Running a LED off of 240 Volts question	olfajarley	09/03/2002 22:25
Re: Running a LED off of 240 Volts question	genixia	09/03/2002 23:03
Re: Running a LED off of 240 Volts question	mlord	10/03/2002 07:31
Re: Running a LED off of 240 Volts question	number6	11/03/2002 22:23
Re: Running a LED off of 240 Volts question	genixia	12/03/2002 13:31
Re: Running a LED off of 240 Volts question	tfabris	12/03/2002 13:51
Re: Running a LED off of 240 Volts question	Rod	15/03/2002 01:54
Re: Running a LED off of 240 Volts question	Gareth	10/03/2002 04:22
Re: Running a LED off of 240 Volts question	eternalsun	12/03/2002 15:00
Re: Running a LED off of 240 Volts question	genixia	12/03/2002 18:47
Re: Running a LED off of 240 Volts question	eternalsun	13/03/2002 13:43
Re: Running a LED off of 240 Volts question	frog51	15/03/2002 02:12
Re: Running a LED off of 240 Volts question	tms13	21/03/2002 10:59