Electronics LED power drain

Discussion in 'Modding' started by uwannabigmak, 19 Jan 2005.

  1. uwannabigmak

    uwannabigmak What's a Dremel?

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    how quickly do LEDs drain battery power? if i wanted to add LEDs to a wireless battery powered keyboard, would it noticeably empty battery power faster? or would it have almost as good battery life?
     
  2. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    LEDs take very little power, but I'm not sure relative to a keyboard. I doubt it would hurt battery life a ton. You may wanna think about a small toggle switch just in case.
     
  3. Wolfe

    Wolfe What's a Dremel?

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    Definite no-no. leds are power efficent, but most normal wireless keyboards use 2 or 3 AA batteries. one led, on all the time, could drain those in the order of a few days.
     

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