What resistor to use on LED light?

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Sofaman

Discussion Starter · Sep 12, 2014

Needing a LED light for an owl that I will be lighting his eyes up with. The only LED bulbs that I can find at my Radio Shack are just the bulbs without the resistor already attached. What is the rule of thumb on this? I plan on running it with a little 9 volt battery. Is there a formula for what resistor to use for a certain sized LED light? Any advise would help greatly!

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J-Man

· #3 · Sep 13, 2014

Use the link that Halstaff posted or do a search for LED calculators. Without doing any calc, a pretty safe set up is a 470 ohm 1/4 watt resistor for a single LED using up to a 12v power source.

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