Monday, July 8, 2013

Changing resistors

The dome buttons are lit by a LED set up for 12V DC.  Replaced resistors in each LED with a 100 ohm resistor so now can use 5 VDC (30mA per pin) - would be better if it were 20mA but had 100 ohm resistors and arduino can source up to 40 mA per output pin.

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