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Clear 'Piranha' Super-flux RGB (tri-color) LED (25 pack) [Common Anode]
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These clear 5 mm Piranha (super-flux) LEDs contain separate red, green, and blue chips in a single square package, allowing full RGB colour mixing. With an 8...
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These clear 5 mm Piranha (super-flux) LEDs contain separate red, green, and blue chips in a single square package, allowing full RGB colour mixing. With an 80° viewing angle and a combined brightness of up to 2000 mcd, they work well as indicators, illuminators, or colour-swirl effects. The square footprint plugs into a breadboard diagonally for easy prototyping.
These are common-anode type — connect the anode pin to your supply voltage and drive each colour channel to ground through a current-limiting resistor. Common-anode is compatible with popular multi-LED driver ICs such as the TLC5940/TLC5941.
Specifications
- Type – Common Anode RGB (tri-colour)
- Package – Piranha / Super-flux, 7.6 × 7.6 mm square
- Lens – Clear, 80° viewing angle
- Red – 630 nm, 2.1–2.5V forward voltage, 400 mcd at 20 mA
- Green – 525 nm, 3.8–4.5V forward voltage, 1200 mcd at 20 mA
- Blue – 470 nm, 3.8–4.5V forward voltage, 400 mcd at 20 mA
- Combined Brightness – Up to 2000 mcd
Ideal For
- RGB colour mixing and mood lighting
- Status indicators with multiple colour states
- Breadboard prototyping and LED driver experiments
- Decorative lighting projects
Package Contents
- 25× Clear Piranha Super-Flux RGB LEDs (common anode)
Resources
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Plain-language definitions for the technical terms used above.
- common-anode
- A wiring arrangement where several LEDs or LED segments share a common positive (anode) terminal and are switched individually on their negative (cathode) side. Common-anode and common-cathode parts, such as RGB LEDs, seven-segment displays, matrices and strips, are not interchangeable without a suitable driver.
- LED
- A light-emitting diode (LED) is a small electronic component that emits light when current flows through it in the correct direction. Because it only conducts one way, its polarity matters, and a through-hole LED must be soldered the correct way around to light up.
- LED driver
- An LED driver is a control chip or circuit that supplies and switches power to LEDs. For a display board, it reduces the number of microcontroller pins needed and handles tasks like lighting the right segments and adjusting brightness.
- RGB
- Short for red, green and blue, the three primary colours of light that are mixed in varying amounts to make a wide range of colours. In electronics RGB can refer to an LED or pixel that blends these three colours, or to a colour signal or interface that carries separate red, green and blue channels.
- Torque
- A twisting force that causes something to rotate, usually measured in newton-metres or kilogram-centimetres. It matters when choosing motors, servos, gears, and tools because higher torque is needed to lift heavier loads, turn larger wheels, or move mechanisms without stalling.
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