On Saturday August 31 1996, Roy J. Tellason of (1:270/615) wrote to Chris 
Harper:
 CH>>> I used to have several LEDs mounted to things like the bottoms
 CH>>> of the legs on the bed, desk, etc..., in my bedroom, and ran
 CH>>> them off a 9V battery so I wouldn't have to turn on the light
 RJT>> Sounds good,  except for the part about the 9v battery.  A couple of
 RJT>> penlight cells would probably last a *lot* longer,  and you're not
 RJT>> wasting most of the power in the dropping resistor.
 CH>> Just use an extrusion process to make vinyl baseboards with the
 CH>> wiring for them inside, and "sockets" for the LEDs.
 RJT> For regular manufacturing,  yeah,  but I was actually wondering about 
some
 RJT> simple way that a mounting could be arranged for such stuff as a thing
 RJT> that an individual could do,  without a whole lot of special tools or
 RJT> equipment. Somehow the idea of wiring up a harness for this sort of 
thing
 RJT> doesn't have a whole lot of appeal...     
I suspect that my "wiring harness", which was very thin wire, was acting as 
the current limiter you speak of. It was quite a length, all totalled probly 
well over 100 ft.
As for the fishing pole, I suspect the thin wire played only a small part, 
and that the led had some sort of limitter built in. They were Radio Shack 
LEDs in multi colors several in a single pack.
RYL,
    Chris
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