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Can you have an LED so bad that it pops a fuse?

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1 year ago



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    #6 1 year ago
     
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    Yes, I had 3 or 4 shorted, all in separate games. No need to keep testing it in a game to see if it blows a fuse.

    You can measure resistance of the tip to the side of of the LED with your multimeter and see if you get zero ohms. Test against a good one, normally measures as open.

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