"D.Duck" wrote in message
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"basskisser" wrote in message
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news.wildblue.net wrote:
that's about the firing voltage of a spark plug.

Yes, it is, but that doesn't mean the LED has to handle that 50,000
volts. Think resistance.....

How much resistance would you need? Series, parallel?


Last time I checked (which may be very outdated info) an LED's forward bias
"on" was around 3.6 volts DC or something like that. You'd need a voltage
divider network to supply that to each LED or enough LED's in series that
the voltage drop across each was in that ballpark.

The series resistor is to limit current ... it depends on the rating of the
LED. It's been a long time since I played with them, so take it for what
it's worth .... which is nothing.