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Diffused 'Piranha' Super-flux RGB (tri-color) LED (10 pack)
Diffused 5mm tri-colour LEDs with separate red, green, and blue chips inside a square "Piranha" (super-flux) package. With a 90° viewing angle and up to 3000...
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Diffused 5mm tri-colour LEDs with separate red, green, and blue chips inside a square "Piranha" (super-flux) package. With a 90° viewing angle and up to 3000mcd combined brightness, these LEDs are great for colour mixing, indicators, and illumination projects. They plug into a breadboard diagonally.
These are common-anode (CA) type — connect the anode pin to your supply voltage and drive the red, green, and blue cathodes to ground through current-limiting resistors. CA LEDs are compatible with multi-LED driver chips such as the TLC5940/TLC5941.
Key Features
- Tri-Colour RGB – Separate red, green, and blue chips in one package
- Common Anode – Compatible with TLC5940/TLC5941 LED drivers
- Diffused Lens – Smooth colour blending with 90° viewing angle
- Piranha Package – 7.6mm square, fits breadboards diagonally
- Pack of 10
Specifications
- Package: 7.6 × 7.6mm square (super-flux/Piranha)
- Type: Common Anode
- Red: 620nm, 1.8–2.2V forward voltage, 800mcd @ 20mA
- Green: 517nm, 3.0–3.3V forward voltage, 1500mcd @ 20mA
- Blue: 460nm, 3.0–3.3V forward voltage, 700mcd @ 20mA
- Total Brightness: 3000mcd
- Viewing Angle: 90°
Ideal For
- RGB colour mixing and mood lighting
- Status indicators and illumination
- Breadboard prototyping with LED drivers
- Interactive light displays
Package Contents
- 10× Diffused Piranha 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.
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