Power 2 LED's Answered

Basically I want to power these 2 LED's from mains power for an Instructable, i have no idea where to start, please describe in laymans terms, any help greatly appreciated cheers

Tags:From Mains

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lemonie

9 years ago

This is a bad question (and not posted in Answers):
What sort of LEDs are these?
Why have you tagged this with "From" and "Mains"?

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abitdifferent

Reply 9 years ago

I'm abit of a newbie to this to be fair, I noticed the tags after I published it, I just typed anything in a rush really (thought it was a sub-title) Not sure what sort of LED's they are really, just colour change ones I nicked out of a solar garden light, Didn't think there were many different types either. maybe a trip to Maplins would be better

lemonie

Reply 9 years ago

OK you've got colour change ones I nicked out of a solar garden light.
What batteries were in the light, or can you show us similar, then we might find out what batteries would do it for you.

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Kiteman

Reply 9 years ago

Single solar garden lights generally have a single (cheap) rechargeable AA.

@abitdifferent, an old mobile phone charger should work for you, as long as you put a resister in series with the LEDs. They typically put out around 4-5V.