This is the result of my first attempt of wiring LEDs in parallel this afternoon. Then I took the original photograph, and desaturated it. Pretty cool huh?
Very Moody!
I like it[Y]
Regards, Ed
Gimp is an incredibly powerful graphics program, it’s public domain, free. The documentation sucks. If you spend the time to fish up more documentation and ask questions and learn GIMP you can do pretty much anything in the way of image manipulation.
I always give each LED it’s own current limiting resistor. If you just parallel LED’s off a single resistor, it works if and only if all the LEDs have the same forward bias voltage. If you parallel a LED with a low forward bias voltage with on that has a high forward bias voltage, the low voltage LED will hog all the current and glow very brightly and the high voltage one will be dim. Resistors are cheap.
I love GIMP, too. But it’s not public domain. It is open source and free, but that’s not the same as public domain. There are lots of video tutorials on Youtube on how to use it.
all four have resistors. I did my homework this time
I have found that if you ask a specific question about gimp it comes up rather than trying to find it in their documentation. My problem is that I forget where the front end extraction tool is and how to use it. I do not use it that often. So I as goolge and it pops right up.
I wired up the four Leds with a resistor on each.