AvroArrow
Enlightened
I've got a newbie request. I've already seached the forums, but haven't found anything relevant. Here's the problem: I've got 2 burnt out 5mm blue LEDs in my Lian-Li PC-6085a PC case and it's out of warranty. I'm still waiting to hear back from the shop where I bought it from to see if they can order spares, but it doesn't look good. Anyway, I'm okay with a soldering iron, so I figure I could go to my local mom & pop electronics shop and pick up a couple 5mm blue LEDs & solder them to the existing wires. BUT, I don't know what kind of LEDs to buy (e.g. specific forward voltage, current, etc). One of the burnt out LEDs is 1 of 2 used to light up a pair of vertical plastic bar thingies and plugs into a little PCB. I have a cheapy Radio Shack pocket digital multimeter that I used to measure the voltage to the connector, and the one without the LED is measuring 5.04V DC, the other connector with a working LED plugged into it is measuring 3.275V DC.
Is this enough information to figure out what kind of LED I need? This cheapy multimeter doesn't measure current, so I don't have any current info.
The other burnt out one is connected to the Power LED pins on my motherboard. Anyone know what kind of LED I need for that? Any help for this LED newbie is appreciated.
Is this enough information to figure out what kind of LED I need? This cheapy multimeter doesn't measure current, so I don't have any current info.
The other burnt out one is connected to the Power LED pins on my motherboard. Anyone know what kind of LED I need for that? Any help for this LED newbie is appreciated.