How much resistance and power should 420 white bright LEDs be connected to 12V power supply? How many a should the power supply use? Is it OK to connect a resistor after all parallel connections? Current 20mA

How much resistance and power should 420 white bright LEDs be connected to 12V power supply? How many a should the power supply use? Is it OK to connect a resistor after all parallel connections? Current 20mA


In the streets of Beijing, there are a lot of LED decorations, just like stars, which are very beautiful. I have carefully observed that there is a resistor in series on each LED. Therefore, it can be judged that the LED is connected in parallel at both ends of the power supply. However, according to what you said, if there are 420 LEDs, it needs 420 * 20mA = 8.4a power supply. In this way, the power supply



How much resistance is needed to supply 12 3W LEDs in parallel with 12V


LED has different voltage according to different colors, which can be estimated as 3.6V
3W / 3.6V × 12 pieces = 10A current,
(12-3.6) V / 10A = 0.84 Ω
(12-3.6)V×10A=84W
It can be seen that this is very unreasonable. The power consumption of step-down resistor is far greater than the total power consumption of LED. The correct way is to connect three LEDs in series and then four LEDs in parallel
Total current = 3W / 3.6V × 4 = 3.3a
Resistance = (12-3 * 3.6V) / 3.3a = 0.36ohm
Resistance power consumption = (12-3 * 3.6V) × 3.3a = 3.96w
Resistance can choose 5W cement resistance, if you can't find a suitable resistance value, try to take higher resistance value, don't take low, otherwise the current is too large, very affect the life of LED. In addition, the best use of regulated power supply, second-hand computer power supply is a very good choice, as low as 10 more than 20 yuan