Simplifying A Color Organ?

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deadfire55

Joined Feb 14, 2010
9
Hello!

I have a color organ that has 12 leds. 6 of them beat to one channel and are yellow (L3, L4, L5, L7, L8, and L11). The other 6 are red and beat to the other channel (L1, L2, L6, L9, L10, L12). They work perfectly fine but the thing is that they aren't very bright (even with a new 9V).

So I want to take all the red leds and put them into one or two super bright blue led's and the same with the yellows but I have no idea how I would go about doing this. :confused:

Would love any help that you could give me.

My circuit:
 

retched

Joined Dec 5, 2009
5,207
Do you have the values of the components on a list?

Something like:
R1 - 330ohm
C1 - .1uF
D1 - 4004

That will show us what components we are working with.

You may not have to change the LEDs. You may just change a few resistors.
 

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deadfire55

Joined Feb 14, 2010
9
Hey thanks for helping. Here's what I've got:

C1: 100 uF 10v
C2: 22uF 25 V
Q1 Transistor: 2N3904V4
D1: 1N4148
IC1: LM389
R1: 22 ohms
R2: 33 kohms
R3: 47 ohms
R4: 33 kohms
R5: 43 kohms
 
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