I've got a little project I'm building from a circuit diagram I got online, and I thought it would be nice to incorporate a couple highflux LED's in it.
I looked at LED driver boards, but I don't have any room to fit one in. All I need is a simple light.
The scenario:
A 3/4" I.D. pipe that I have 5/16" width and 1 1/4" height in. The width is enough to get an LED in (I'm putting 2 LED's in, over/under) and a 6mmx6mm tact switch. I'm using the HF5-W9950 highflux LED's from superbrightled which I had kicking around. Forward V 3.2, max forward V 3.5, 100ma, reverseV is 5V. Power will be from 2 Panasonic NCR18650PD's 2900mha 18650 batteries @ 3.7V wired in series for 7.4v nominal, 8.4v max. I used the calculator at LEDcenter to calculate the resistor value which is 22ohm. I don't have room for another mosfet on my board, so here's where I'm stumped. The tact switch is 12V and 50mha. If I just put the switch between the resistors and LEDS there will probably be smoke? How do I make this work.
I looked at LED driver boards, but I don't have any room to fit one in. All I need is a simple light.
The scenario:
A 3/4" I.D. pipe that I have 5/16" width and 1 1/4" height in. The width is enough to get an LED in (I'm putting 2 LED's in, over/under) and a 6mmx6mm tact switch. I'm using the HF5-W9950 highflux LED's from superbrightled which I had kicking around. Forward V 3.2, max forward V 3.5, 100ma, reverseV is 5V. Power will be from 2 Panasonic NCR18650PD's 2900mha 18650 batteries @ 3.7V wired in series for 7.4v nominal, 8.4v max. I used the calculator at LEDcenter to calculate the resistor value which is 22ohm. I don't have room for another mosfet on my board, so here's where I'm stumped. The tact switch is 12V and 50mha. If I just put the switch between the resistors and LEDS there will probably be smoke? How do I make this work.