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Paradoxmaker
06-04-03, 05:16 PM
About a year ago I replaced a couple of my green LED's on my keyboard with blue ones. I only replaced the cap lock and the number lock due to the cost of the LED's(over $5 each at the time) I left the scroll lock alone because I never use it.

My question now is, I was looking at swapping these blue LED's with some UV purple LED's. As a test I just placed the leads of the UV LED's to the bottom of the blue ones where they are soldered to the board. I found that the UV leds would barely light up on the number lock and not at all on the scroll lock.I just recently got a voltmeter so I pulled it out and measured the voltage of eack of the LED's. I was somewhat surprised by the differance in voltages.

My numberlock voltage was 2.85v, the caplock was at 3.49v, and the scroll lock measured a lowly 2.0v. Now like I said the scroll lock has the orginal green LED in it. The other 2 locks have the blue LED's that I installed, both blue LED's light up well and are extremly bright.

Has anyone else noticed this kind of variation in the voltages on their keyboards? My keyboard is a Logitech Delux Access Keyboard model#Y-SG13

fiji
06-04-03, 07:26 PM
weird, never had that... hmmm if i think of anything ill let you know


that seems kinda weird, because i though those led's were in a series

question: did you measure the led's one at a time, or when they were all hooked up?

Paradoxmaker
06-04-03, 11:22 PM
I measured them 2 ways. The 1st time I took measurments with all 3 lit up, the 2nd time I measured them lit up 1 at a time.