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Console Modding------ ( Here you can talk about your favorite Consoles ) => Nintendo DS => DS Lite => Topic started by: holden42311 on June 29, 2012, 11:28:24 PM

Title: adding LEDs to the DSLite, need help shopping
Post by: holden42311 on June 29, 2012, 11:28:24 PM
okay...ive done my fair share of research and ive come to a conclusion...i WILL be putting lights in my DS Lite that has just been sitting around since the screen cracked. that too im going to fix in a couple days.

heres where my problem lies...i want to run a single turn potentiometer (from allelectronics.com) but dont know the ohm rating i should use...they have 500 ohms all the way up to 500k ohms. i plan on running about a dozen lights through it. is that too much? i will be having the corners lit up and the d pad and face buttons lit up, just so you know.

any help is greatly appreciated. cheers!
Title: Re: adding LEDs to the DSLite, need help shopping
Post by: 3D0kassiah on June 30, 2012, 12:11:25 PM
what size leds are u gonna run?
ive used 0805 leds with a few resistors on my nephews ds worked fine
Title: Re: adding LEDs to the DSLite, need help shopping
Post by: holden42311 on June 30, 2012, 03:09:45 PM
what size leds are u gonna run?
ive used 0805 leds with a few resistors on my nephews ds worked fine

prolly 0603s cuz i have hundreds of them lying around from other mods
Title: Re: adding LEDs to the DSLite, need help shopping
Post by: 3D0kassiah on June 30, 2012, 04:38:29 PM
id use those they dont even draw alot of power well depends which ones u have
might be harder because of the size
Title: Re: adding LEDs to the DSLite, need help shopping
Post by: holden42311 on July 01, 2012, 06:02:08 AM
id use those they dont even draw alot of power well depends which ones u have
might be harder because of the size
okay, do you know what size resistors to get for these?http://www.alliedelec.com/search/productdetail.aspx?SKU=70053709#tab=specs

forward current is 25mA
forward voltage is 2 volts
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