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Old 12-03-2008, 01:07 AM   #27 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by captainslug View Post
The brightest LED Luxeon makes can output 540 lumens at 6.6W (provided you don't have to use a resistor). The resistor used to power the LED from a 12volt supply ends up consuming almost 2 watts.
Could you not use two LED circuits to break the 12v down to 6 and 6?

I can't remember which type of circuit you'd use... I think you'd use two series circuits in parallel.

+[-|-|-|-|-|-]-
+[-|-|-|-|-|-]-


+ = input
- = output
[-|... = LED's in series


Something like that.. but it's probably wrong.
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