I'm changing the power LED that is next to the screen in my GBC to white.
For white, which will look nicer once installed inside the gameboy, Diffused or Water Clear?
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Diffused is pretty typical for power indicator applications.
This is worth taking a look through: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=di … p;_sacat=0
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United States
water clear is cool if you want a flashlight aiming at your face while you use the gameboy
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Boner wrote:
water clear is cool if you want a flashlight aiming at your face while you use the gameboy
Maybe with a super bright LED. The stock LED is clear.
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Boner wrote:
it's also not white.
There's such thing as low brightness white LEDs...
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Sweeeeeeden
Ok. Then there's surely such a thing as 10k resistors... 
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Boner wrote:
Not in my America.
Doubt it, I got this led for 15 cents.
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GoingHam wrote:
Boner wrote:Not in my America.
Doubt it, I got this led for 15 cents.
So that is what a Diffused one looks like right?
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nitro2k01 wrote:
Ok. Then there's surely such a thing as 10k resistors...
Are you replacing R1 (1k) near the top edge of the board above the LED? I put some water clears in and they are blinding.
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My point is, you can always make a LED less bright by putting in a bigger resistor value. I just grabbed a value out of my ass. Experiment and find a value that works well for your LED. 10k is probably too big for the purpose.
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But is that the resistor to replace? I'm having trouble following the traces but it looks like that R1 is for the LED.