Hey guys,
First of all thank you for reading this and I'm a total newbie to this so please be patient while I'm still learning
Anyway I'm currently confused as hell with the problem Ive got at the moment.
Long story short I'm currently designing my own LED Tail lights for my car.
I've got everything working perfectly fine on the car except there is one resistor ( the 39ohms ) it gets very very hot even after a short while of turning the tail light on.
The resistors I used for my project are 0.5 watts. I went to picked up 5watts 39ohms resistor but even that one still gets a bit too warm for my liking.
I have included the schematic hopefully it makes sense to you guys. I didn't actually use any diodes even though it shows on my schematic ( not gonna make any difference right ? )
I used the 2.2ohms and 39ohms resistors to adjust the brightness of my LEDs
What did I do wrong here ?
First of all thank you for reading this and I'm a total newbie to this so please be patient while I'm still learning
Anyway I'm currently confused as hell with the problem Ive got at the moment.
Long story short I'm currently designing my own LED Tail lights for my car.
I've got everything working perfectly fine on the car except there is one resistor ( the 39ohms ) it gets very very hot even after a short while of turning the tail light on.
The resistors I used for my project are 0.5 watts. I went to picked up 5watts 39ohms resistor but even that one still gets a bit too warm for my liking.
I have included the schematic hopefully it makes sense to you guys. I didn't actually use any diodes even though it shows on my schematic ( not gonna make any difference right ? )
I used the 2.2ohms and 39ohms resistors to adjust the brightness of my LEDs
What did I do wrong here ?
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