led's

joeyc · Post by **joeyc** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:24 am

i've forgotten which one of y'all is the led nut, maybe all of you are. but anyway, where is the best place to get led's and any other corresponding equipment online?

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:52 am

Thats Chris...

:help:

Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:59 am

joeyc wrote:i've forgotten which one of y'all is the led nut, maybe all of you are. but anyway, where is the best place to get led's and any other corresponding equipment online?

What type of LEDs do you need? What will they be used for?

William from NOLA · Post by **William from NOLA** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:21 am

lol, Chris, your title is awesome.

You should put some LED's on a pair of glasses to be used as "headlights."

Post by **GlassWolf** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:30 am

http://www.jameco.com

Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:49 am

William from NOLA wrote:lol, Chris, your title is awesome.

You should put some LED's on a pair of glasses to be used as "headlights."

lol, giving me ideas!

joeyc · Post by **joeyc** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:10 am

lol, well actually i have no direction right now. first time i've ever soldered any up. went to radio shack, omg expensive, and picked up some to tinker with. was not aware of what i was doing really so i got some high resistance resistors. anyway, found a bunch of resistance calculators and such now. but i am going to be doing some in a box for a customer in a few weeks. found one place that seems to be reasonable http://www.lsdiodes.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index

Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:17 am

joeyc wrote:lol, well actually i have no direction right now. first time i've ever soldered any up. went to radio shack, omg expensive, and picked up some to tinker with. was not aware of what i was doing really so i got some high resistance resistors. anyway, found a bunch of resistance calculators and such now. but i am going to be doing some in a box for a customer in a few weeks. found one place that seems to be reasonable http://www.lsdiodes.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index

I've heard good things about them, haven't bought from them myself tho.

As for the resistors and stuff, I usually just get them at radio shack because they are just down the street. If I had a big project where I needed a bunch, then I would order them online too.

joeyc · Post by **joeyc** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:23 am

well they are 99 cents for 5 at the shack, and 25 cents for 5 on that site. lol won't amount to much unless i am installing thousands of leds i suppose. now each led needs its own resistor no matter what the configuration? or not?

Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:42 am

check out this calculator
http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz

it shows how to wire LEDs series/parallel.