I'm not sure if there is room for an extension? It's not as big a deal as I may have made it out to be, just a bit of an inconvenience. It's usable as is, the extra speed bump, if it supports it would be nice though. It can wait I have some other stuff on the go anyway.
anyway ,what will it eventually do
It will be used with my NOIR camera, hint hint.
This is one of my few exceptions to not getting single color LED's. They are 940nm.
It's 24 super-bright 5mm IR LED's. They have an "approximate" 1.6v forward voltage. It varies a little bit diode to diode. I wired them up in groups of 3 in series. That's ~4.8 V which will be fine if I use 5V. It won't damage them. Doing it that way means no load resistors needed and no wasted power.
Intereseting .wish I knew what the heck it all meant ,I just stopped cleaning my Pi room and Pi accessories storage.I have way to much stuff i should have never bought , hdmi cables and hdmi to hdmi adapters ect ect ,, when I get it all sorted ,I'll give you a list and you can have any you want ,all if you want all ! its not a large number,but way more than i needed for sure.
I'm still researching it a bit before I actually power it up. Normally you have a current limiting resistor in series with the LED.
Mine is +5V--LED--LED--LED--Ground.
LED Calculator
If I do the math for my setup its 0.75 ohms. Less than 1 ohm. A higher voltage on the LED means more current. With my setup (no resistor) its ~1.7 V per LED, and they are 1.6V.
Instead of the nominal 100ma I'll get ~120ma. No big deal. I think? I'm currently still second guessing myself, lol. If I get it wrong they will be really bright for a really short period.
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