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LED VOLTAGE
Can abybody tell me if LEDs are voltage sensitive ? I know ( or used to anyway) that light bulbs are 12 or six volt.
I have several old "string lights" and others that had two A A battteries that worked them. I believe the batterys were in series.
Could I hook them to 12 volts with frying something ???
Old Man Zues
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LED'S
Originally Posted by Oldmanzues
Can abybody tell me if LEDs are voltage sensitive ? I know ( or used to anyway) that light bulbs are 12 or six volt.
I have several old "string lights" and others that had two A A battteries that worked them. I believe the batterys were in series.
Could I hook them to 12 volts with frying something ???
Old Man Zues
Two series AA batteries would be only 3 vdc. I don't think you could increase the voltage by 4x without burning the diodes out.IMHO!
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Magic Man knows more about this than I do but I'm sure that LED lighting packages are voltage sensitive. The circuitry included in the LED lights or the material the LEDs are constructed out of determines what input voltage is needed to operate the lights. Hooking up a 5 volt LED light to a 12 volt circuit might immediately blow the light, cause it to fail prematurely or it might work just fine.
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