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Old 02-12-2012, 10:14 PM
bloodhound31
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Originally Posted by bojan View Post
It is probably the combination of those :
2 in series, then two of those sets in parallel.

This is because Red LED has ~2V forward voltage, so 2 of them in series will have 4V
3 batteries are 4.5V.. just enough for two LED in series. I would recommend resistor in series of both parallel sets, to limit the current (when batteries are fresh)

For more details see here:
http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/components/led.htm
Thanks mate.

How come the torch doesn't have a resistor in it?
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