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Originally Posted by Chief Pride
. but here comes the weird part, i looked up how to measure voltage with the multimeter in AC, it said i was supposed to break the circuit and complete the circuit with my multimeter, but i read the same voltage (6.5) with, or without the resistors, and the 6.5 voltage is burning my LED's out after about 18 hours....
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To measure current with a multimeter, you have to break the circuit and put the meter in series with the load. Maybe that's what the instructions that you read were talking about.
As Al suggested, you need to figure out what the recommended current is for the LED, then use Ohm's law to calculate how much resistance you need to limit the current to that amount.