Tue, April 12, 2005 - 09:41 PM

Hi Gang:

Do a Google search for "light emitting diode"

A good description of LED
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/led.htm

A Google Serch of "light emitting diode"  +  installation
http://www.answers.com/topic/light-emitting-diode

As far as I remember hooking up a single colour LED light can be just hooked up
A dual colour LED (red/green, blue/white) is dependent on voltage
direction. Reverse the voltage and the colour will change

Regards Al

In , on 04/12/2005 
   at 08:59 PM, Franklin  said:





>--- "Don{ald} O. Woodall"  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Guys
>> 
>>      I've just visited the Radio Shack Web Site and ran into MY
>> ignorance,
>> which I was attempting to buy my way around but could not because
>> Radio
>> Shack did not have the product I was looking for.
>> 
>>      I was trying to buy round LED's with attached wires and a
>> connector
>> on the end of the wires that would plug onto a hard drive.
>> 
>>      All the Radio Shack Web Site showed was bare LED's, which I
>> already
>> have a supply of.
>> 
>>      With the factory made hard drive LED's I have, I have
>> identified which pin in the hard drive I connect the black wire to so
>> the
>> LED works.
>> 
>>      If I am going to have to solder the wires to the LED's
>> myself; How do I correctly solder the black wire to the proper leg of
>> the
>> LED so it works as expected?
>> 
>>      Also, what type / size connecter am I looking for that plugs
>> onto the
>> hard drive?

>Is a LED a diode? Can you put an ohmmeter on one way and get a high
>resistance, reverse and get a lower one? Do that with both and you would
>figure it out. It also must be indexed but I've never really looked at 'em
>on the backside :-)

>Franklin


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