Pilot
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Re: robo3687's Iron Man 2 Pep Files - foot in first post-details last page
Granted, running one off a pair of relatively low current AA batteries probably isn't going to cause any problems, but there's still a right way and a wrong way to approach the creation of an electrical circuit. It doesn't take very long for even a simple LED to get uncomfortably hot, which usually happens right before the aforementioned spectacular failure.
Eagerly awaiting the new pieces, robo - thanks again for all the work you've put into this.
Yes they will, but you'll still be creating the potential for very rapid failure. The resistor in an LED circuit is not for voltage regulation, but for current limiting. If you feed an LED the proper forward voltage from a non-limited current source, it's going to fail. Sometimes quite spectacularly.LEDs will run at voltage without resistors IF you know what voltage they take
Granted, running one off a pair of relatively low current AA batteries probably isn't going to cause any problems, but there's still a right way and a wrong way to approach the creation of an electrical circuit. It doesn't take very long for even a simple LED to get uncomfortably hot, which usually happens right before the aforementioned spectacular failure.
Eagerly awaiting the new pieces, robo - thanks again for all the work you've put into this.