--- "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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