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Re: Driving LEDs straight from Relay outputs

First, have a look at the RC specs especially regarding the relay outputs, then have a look at the spike specs, taking note of the two solenoid example.

Give it a bit of thought and you'll figure out how to drive an LED off the 5 volts that comes out of the FWD and REV pins of the Relay outputs, with the black wire being Ground/Negative/Cathode. Do not forget the dropping resistor.

Alternative would be to use a spike, since then you could drive 20 Amps of lights, but the RC can drive an LED at perhaps 10 mA

Have fun,

Don
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