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- KrazyPlace
- Astrea snail
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Snakeman...your not a grasshopper anymore! A mAh is a mA per hour. Theoretically a "D" Duracell battery will have 1.5V each and 15,000 mAh. The battery can discharge its power at various rates depending on the power consumption of the electronics. What that means is if you run 1 LED at 30mA then your battery will last 15000/30 = 500 hours (theoretically). More realistic is if you use 6 LEDs with 4 "AA" batteries (4x1.5V=6V, 3x2850mAh=11.4Ah) you should get 11.4Ah / (6x30mA) = 63.3 hours of run time. Not bad for a flashlight!Snakeman wrote:Krazyplace , Young grasshopper has a question. If I use 4 AA battiers to get 6 volts how many MA Is that. Is there a way to see how many MA batteries produce. I want to do some flashlight project.
Try this link for a list of battery size vs mAh:
http://www.batteryspecialist.com/Mercha ... e=duracell
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- KrazyPlace
- Astrea snail
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- KrazyPlace
- Astrea snail
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The email address is cwithk@netvigator.com. I think they only sell 25, 50, 100 or more at a time, but email him and tell him what your looking for and ask for a price. The blue should be alittle more expensive, but not much.KrazyPlace wrote:I just received 50 white LED for $13 shipped. The same company sells the blue ones too. I'll post the email address tonight after I get home. You guys ought to go in together...save some money. Radio shack has a 12.6V 450mA transformer for $7.99. The higher amperages (1A, 2A, 2.5A) are about the same price. They also have a 25.2V version that allows up to 6 LED in series....makes wiring easier.
Voltage is not split when the line is split. What I mean is that if you have a 12.6V source and you have 10 parallel lines, then each line will have 12.6V available. Now you have to subtract "used" voltage if you place the LEDs in series, that is why SnakeMan used 3 LEDs (3.4Vx3=10.2V + resistor).Scott wrote:Your running 3 in series on two parallel circuits? Have you measured the voltage output of the transformer?
SnakeMan was 100% right...the limiting factor is the amperage of the transformer. Most LED use between 10-30mA depending on how many volts you run through them. If you assume 30mA then a 450mA transformer will power upto 15 LEDs. A 2A transformer will power about 66 LEDs.Snakeman wrote:no. Every thing that I read said it didn't matter how my circuits you run as long as you do not go over your MA output. I think the Leds I got run on about 25-30Ma my tranformer can handle up to 600ma.
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- KrazyPlace
- Astrea snail
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I'm not sure! On that website it shows an approximate drain of 28mA for each battery, but that would be at the started mAh, therefore if you ran more the curve would be different, but I wouldn't think it would be much different. I think you can probably run twice the rating and still be OK. I think. Maybe. uuummmm? Not sure.
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