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Make a simple LED tester.

Make a simple LED tester.
This is a very simple but useful LED tester that lets you test, compare and check the colour of just about any two pin LED.

To make it you will need the following:-

A PP3 battery connector.
A 470 ohm resistor.
A bit of heat-shrink sleeving to cover the resistor.
A two pin Molex style 0.1" (2.54mm) pitch miniature socket.
Two contacts for the socket.
A PP3 9V battery. Alkaline preferred.

And some LEDs to play with.
 
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Step 1The battery connector.

The battery connector.
The main part of this instructable is a cheap and common PP3 battery connector used to connect to the small rectangular 9V batteries.
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3 comments
Jun 6, 2010. 1:39 PMJenn Nelson says:
Really easy, and super useful.
Oct 28, 2009. 7:40 PMMudbud says:
Nice job dude.****
Jun 15, 2009. 9:05 PMGoodhart says:
Simple and elegant. I like this. :-)

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Self employed industrial electrician who likes taking stuff to bits and modifying it, or building completely new stuff. There's nothing nicer than a completely unique one-off item that you custom mad...
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