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LED Light Bar - White

Replacement:COM-12014. We are now carrying an SMD version of this LED Light Bar, go check it out! This page is for reference only.

Want to make a 12 ft GPS wall clock? This is the perfect item to light it up! Even if you that's not the project you are looking to build, these light bars pack quite a bit of light into three small LED's and they are very easy to set up with no soldering required.

The white LED Light Bar is a pre-packaged strip of 3 high-output LEDs powered by 12VDC. Each unit comes with a fully assembled and tested PCB with current limiting resistors, a wall-mount holder, and a polarized connection cable. Each LED Light Bar only absorbs approximately 30mA @ 12V.

  • 3.08x 0.59" (78x15mm)
  • Mounting hole OD is 0.176" (4.5mm)

LED Light Bar - White Product Help and Resources

LED Light Bar Hookup

September 24, 2013
A quick overview of SparkFun's LED light bars, and some examples to show how to hook them up.
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  • acj / about 12 years ago / 1

    Do you still stock the RGB version of these?

  • DaveTheHacker / about 13 years ago / 1

    Does anyone know the part # of the LED used in this board? I'd like to get manufacturer's maximum current spec.
    We just measured the current through this LED bar and it's more like 17mA. We measured 70mA across 4 of them @ 12.4V, and 17mA across one.

  • Mark Fickett / about 13 years ago / 1

    I used this as a night light along with another project. It's almost obnoxiously bright unshaded, if what you want is a night-light, and a little blue as compared to incandescents (of course), but very nice with a little night-light shade over it.

  • AngusP / about 13 years ago / 1

    I bought a few of these recently, and although they say 30mA @ 12V, if you remove the limiting resistor, these will easily run off the 5V that an Arduino outputs. I eventually ended up de-soldering the LEDs, but they work fine in the module. These are definately very bright, even at 5V, but they are only very bright looking straight at them from the front, whereas from the sides they are less bright. Just as a note, the wall mounting clips have double sided adhesive on the back of them, although you cannot see this from the picture. Mine came with white leads, and unlike the description, the leads and the sockets are not polarised such that the modules cannot be wired in reverse. Linking these things together in chains does not decrease the brightness at all,so there is no need to link them all individually to a power source.

    • Member #381897 / about 11 years ago / 1

      Where is the limiting resistor and how did you remove it?

      • AngusP / about 11 years ago / 1

        The limiting resistor is a small white SMD component on the back. If you replace it with a lower value these will work at 5 volts. I actually ended up desoldering the three LEDs completely and using 220 ohm resistors (don't hold me to that) to prevent them from burning out.

  • mikemack / about 14 years ago / 1

    i was wondering if that bucktoot led driver could power 3 of these, i think so, but i am not sure.

  • smd75jr / about 14 years ago / 1

    whats the minimum voltage that can power these?

  • dgadling / about 14 years ago / 1

    Any idea when these will be back in stock?

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