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High Quality Available: Creating lights from start to finish

Resistors -
Radio Shack (USA)
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062340&cp=&sr=...

The Source by Circuit City (Canada)
http://www.thesource.ca/estore/Product.aspx?language=en-CA&catalog=Online...

LEDs
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.1106

All other items can be purchased from an electronic, component, hardware, or hobby store

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  • @xelitepkingx not in the same series. there's not enough voltage for 4 white LEDs.

  • Do the specs really matter if it is a little higher or lower?

  • by the way the powersupply of 12 volts how many amp its gives thanks.because I would like to know that power supply gives 12 volt dc 3.3 or 5 and 12 but how much each gives amp?

    then you can use the right resistors.

  • @shippen2010 Conducts the heat coming off the LED and power, Basically if you didn't have one then it would catch fire

  • "it is always usually" ...right...

  • can you put more then 3 on 1 strand?

  • great video, sorry i'm so lame but what is the purpose of the resister? THX

  • @pyronathanpyro well if u are thinking this is because "power" runs from + to - then u would be mistaken not to long ago we were able to look so small down to the electron and see that it runs from - to + but system in place atm would be to hard to swap everything around because it makes no difrence what happend to you was not because of where u have them in the circuit

  • @EKUL34 normaly i just stick it to posative as ive had led blow with it on negative :(

  • @pyronathanpyro no it dosnt matter where you put it in the circuit

    this is because in a circuit a voltage has to drop over the circuit from the start in this case 12V til the end 0v the voltage drops over the LED's and reistor it dosnt matter when the voltage drops over each of them the voltage droped over them is determed by the resistence of the item

    if anyone wants any help with a circuit add me on msn electrolover34@hotmail.com

    i have my cert 1 and 2 in electrotechnology glad to help anyway

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