Adafruit
3W-9W RGB LED - Common Anode
This high-power RGB LED from Adafruit delivers serious brightness, with each red, green, and blue die capable of handling 350–750mA continuous current (2A pe...
This high-power RGB LED from Adafruit delivers serious brightness, with each red, green, and blue die capable of handling 350–750mA continuous current (2A peak). At 3W it produces approximately 150 lumens, scaling up to around 300 lumens at the full 9W.
The LED comes pre-mounted on an aluminium PCB that serves as both a mounting base and partial heatsink. This is a common-anode configuration, so all three colour channels share a single positive connection.
Key Features
- High Power Output – 3W to 9W operation with up to ~300 lumens
- Full RGB Colour Mixing – Independent red, green, and blue dies for millions of colours
- Common Anode – Shared positive connection for all three channels
- Aluminium PCB Mount – Pre-mounted on a metal-core PCB for heat dissipation
- High Current Capacity – 350–750mA continuous per channel, 2A peak
Specifications
- Power – 3W (at ~350mA/channel) to 9W (at ~750mA/channel)
- Luminous Output – ~150 lumens at 3W, ~300 lumens at 9W
- Configuration – Common anode
- Current per Channel – 350–750mA continuous, 2A peak
- Mounting – Aluminium PCB
Ideal For
- High-brightness RGB lighting projects
- Stage and effects lighting
- Colour-mixing experiments
- Custom lamp and fixture builds
Package Contents
- 1× 3W–9W RGB LED on aluminium PCB
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Plain-language definitions for the technical terms used above.
- common-anode
- A wiring style for multi-colour LEDs where the positive side is shared and each colour channel is controlled on the negative side. This matters because common-anode and common-cathode LED strips are not interchangeable without a suitable driver.
- LED
- A light-emitting diode is a small electronic component that lights up when current flows through it in the correct direction. In this kit, LEDs create the flashing effect, so polarity and correct soldering matter for the project to work.
- PCB
- A printed circuit board is a rigid board with copper tracks that connect electronic parts without loose wires. For this kit, the PCBs also form the airplane shape, so they are both the circuit base and part of the finished model.
- RGB
- Short for red, green and blue, usually referring to an LED that can mix those three colours. It matters because controlling an RGB LED teaches how separate outputs combine to create different colours.
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