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What are LED Lights?

The word LED stands for Light Emitting Diode, a light emitting diode is an electronic component that emits light when a current is run through it.  The technical word for what happens is electroluminescence, where photons of light are produced by electrons recombining into electron holes on the device.

LED Lights have a variety of day to day uses, they are used in remote controls for televisions and stereos (infra red led lights). They are used in lighting around the home and office and on electronic devices such as game consoles, fridges, microwaves, alarms and much more.

The colour of the LED light is determined by the distance (energy gap) of the LED.

A sample LED Diagram is shown below.

Uses of LED Lights

If youre interested in finding out more about the uses of LED Lights, please take a look at our LED Lighting projects page here.

You can also see the range of led lights which we sell by clicking here.