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From: ardai@teda.UUCP (Mike Ardai)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: LED brightness, colors
Message-ID: <10748@teda.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 90 19:53:12 GMT
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The 0.1 uF cap on pin 5 should go to ground (-), not Vcc (+).  According
to the spec sheets, it can source or sink 200 mA, so a transistor should
not be needed.
/mike


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