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Power LED's - simplest light with constant-current circuit

Step 6Add a resistor

add a resistor
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- solder resistor one leg of resistor R1 to that dangling LED-plus wire

- solder the other leg of R1 to pin 1 of Q2.

- attach the positive wire from the battery or power source to the LED-plus wire. it probably would have been easier to do that first actually.
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Dan Goldwater is a co-founder of Instructables. Currently he operates MonkeyLectric where he develops revolutionary bike lighting products. He also writes a DIY column for Momentum magazine.