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Figure 7.
RGB LED configuration
Note:
Red, blue and green LEDs have different forward voltages (refer to
). In general,
the red LED has a lower forward voltage and therefore the power dissipation on the red LED
channel is the highest. There is quite simple way to decrease this power dissipation by using
a serial resistor with the red LED. Calculation example is shown in
and
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I-REG
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Vf_red
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Vf_blue
Vf_green
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Vf_green