<div>Meredith -<br><br>What's you end goal with the LEDs? If you want to provide overall illumination, you can get some fancy pants three chip LEDs that give you a ton of brightness for your power buck. If you want individual LEDs, the smaller ones are usually a lot more power efficient. I agree with Jim - you can definitely power them with something as simple as a coin battery per LED (you can get an idea of the implementation from this article: <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-Throwies/">http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-Throwies/</a>)</div>
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<div>Hope that helps. If you want to see the bright 3 chip LEDs, let me know - I've got a strip of them and can bring them by Wednesday.</div>
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<div>All this talk of LEDs has gotten me super intrigued.</div>
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<div>Are there any books/sites that you recommend?</div>
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<div>On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:06 PM, meredith scheff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:satiredun@gmail.com" target="_blank">satiredun@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div>
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<div>I'd like to do a soft circuit scarf or three, but I'm always running up against the problem of power. I usually use fairly low power LEDs
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<div>I've heard tell of somehow being able to power more, but I'm still learning this EE stuff. Could some kind person point me in the right direction?</div>
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