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Subject: 
Re: Homemade LED Bricks
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 06:38:38 GMT
Original-From: 
dave madden <dhm@STOPSPAMmersenne.com>
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=>From: "Maneesh Soni" <maneeshsoni@hotmail.com>
=>...
=>It is not possible to have a two-terminal and dual colour LED. One of the
=>three terminals is a common negative terminal of two LEDs that are inseide
=>the same casing. The two remaining terminals are used to connect positive
=>side of battery to.

This is curious: why can't one build a diode that (electrically)
behaves like this:

           red
        +---|<---+
        |        |
   -----+        +----
        |        |
        +--->|---+
           green

Are LEDs such bad diodes that this won't work?  Or is there something
else I forgot (or never learned) in electronics that makes this
impossible?

d.



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  Re: Homemade LED Bricks
 
(...) Such LEDs are available. Forward DC -> red, reverse DC -> green, AC -> yellow. I'm looking at a catalogue now with some. -- Frank Wales [frank@limitless.co.uk] (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Homemade LED Bricks
 
Hi! It is not possible to have a two-terminal and dual colour LED. One of the three terminals is a common negative terminal of two LEDs that are inseide the same casing. The two remaining terminals are used to connect positive side of battery to. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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