Hello.
So my friend and I are planning to make a super awesome beer pong table.
We want to put LED lights in it for effect, and I'm the one who has to do the thinking.
So I ordered 600 LEDs off eBay, (yellow, blue, and white), and now I need to figure out what size resistors to order.
I only took 1 electronics class a year ago so I'm still n00b.
First question: it says "Forward voltage: 1.8~2.6V"
What does that mean? Do I design for 2.6V or 1.8? or average it out?
And also, am I doing this correctly?
It has a 20mA rating, and lets say we use 2.6V, and we run 3 in series.
we have 7.8V / 0.020A = 390 Ω resistor required?
Thanks in advance
So my friend and I are planning to make a super awesome beer pong table.
We want to put LED lights in it for effect, and I'm the one who has to do the thinking.
So I ordered 600 LEDs off eBay, (yellow, blue, and white), and now I need to figure out what size resistors to order.
I only took 1 electronics class a year ago so I'm still n00b.
First question: it says "Forward voltage: 1.8~2.6V"
What does that mean? Do I design for 2.6V or 1.8? or average it out?
And also, am I doing this correctly?
It has a 20mA rating, and lets say we use 2.6V, and we run 3 in series.
we have 7.8V / 0.020A = 390 Ω resistor required?
Thanks in advance