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Originally Posted by theiceman View Post
the purpose of the resistor is to limit the current going through the led.. keeps circuit current low.. forward biased diodes have very little resistance and require very little current to light, without the resistor the higher current flow would burn it out .
Are you even looking at the same diagram?
The only thing in the entire circuit is the capacitor and the LED.
There is no separate resistor !!
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