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Re: Turning LEDs on/off

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
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.


Mind reader!

So, I have too admit I am feeling pretty foolish, and I want to get this in the thread for accuracy, as I was working on the wiring for the circuit, I pulled up the specs on the DSC and figured out I had the LED plugged into the PWM instead of the DIO. Moving the LED to the DIO power/ground and turning in on/off via the Digital Output works just fine.

Sorry for the diversion and thanks for the info n making the switch. Now I want to try out the switch to see if I can mAke it work.

Question: why was a 100K ohm resistor used on the gate?
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