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castlesteve castlesteve is offline
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I dont have the part numbers on hand... its pretty generic.. like Mot 7805.. But really they are everywhere... no point in sourcing them.

the reason it is getting hot is that you are creating a voltage divider with low impedance... and there is a LOT of current drawn just for your voltage drop. Only a small amount is actually diverted to the LEDs. with a voltage regulator, the voltage is regulated using only the current requested by the diodes.

its too early.
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Old 04-06-2003, 08:07 AM
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