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Re: Turning LEDs on/off

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Originally Posted by DonRotolo View Post
A FET (especially an IFF510) may be overkill, a plain NPN switching transistor will be fine.
But you know, as soon as he gets that little 0.1 watt LED working, he's gonna want to swap it out for an auto headlight and run it straight off the battery.