A Beginner's Guide to Driving LEDs - Part 2


Resistance is not futile...

Part 1 of this tutorial showed why using an LED is not as straight forward as using a light bulb. Now we have a look at different ways to operate an LED.

The simplest and well known way to operate an LED is to add a series resistor. It is quite easy to determine the value for this resistor:



Start with the operating point of the LED. E.g. an LED might have a

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