seanspotatobusiness
- Sep 11, 2012
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I have a project for which I'd like to use one of these remote controls and receivers. They accept 12 v and use this to power RGB LEDs on strips. However I don't want to power LEDs on strips; I want to power some RGB LEDs in parallel which means I need to drop the voltage considerably (to 2.8-3.8 v). I was wondering whether I could do this simply by reducing the input voltage? According to the webpage above, the receiver uses a 5 v regulator which presumably powers all the electronics with 12 v then being passed to the LEDs by mosfets (the red output is actually 8-9 v).
If I supply, say, 4 v, how would the voltage regulator handle that?
If I supply, say, 4 v, how would the voltage regulator handle that?