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For the below circuit according to Ohm's law the led will get 23mA.

Circuit

What happens if the resistance is removed? How many amperes will the LED get? My assumption is that the wire has some kind of resistance as well...but how much ?

Thanks

Michel Keijzers
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Cris
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    You forgot the voltage drop over the diode. See [Why is the diode forward voltage constant?](https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/294974/why-is-the-diode-forward-voltage-constant) – CL. Aug 15 '17 at 14:23
  • Measure it's length, area of cross-section, find out it's material resistivity and use a known formula to calculate it. Or measure it. Surely we can't know it. – Eugene Sh. Aug 15 '17 at 14:23
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    0Amps, because the LED will blow up. – uhours Aug 15 '17 at 14:28
  • Don't forget about source resistance of your power supply circuit. – Volodymyr Smotesko Aug 15 '17 at 14:28
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    @uhours it depends. Some LEDs can get hot but keep going being powered by a 5V source directly. It also helps when the source is only capable to give 500mA or less ;) – Volodymyr Smotesko Aug 15 '17 at 14:29
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    So it will become a SED (smoke-emitting diode) :))) – Cris Aug 15 '17 at 14:36
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    It will become a DED (dark-emitting diode), though when I did this by accident a while ago, the package blew a leg off, and I was left with a DEM (dark-emitting monode) – Neil_UK Aug 15 '17 at 15:22
  • If it wasn't previously it will become an IR led for a short period of time. – Andy aka Aug 15 '17 at 16:39
  • But how can something emit "Darkness". For that we would need sink of energ ^^". (So DED of Neil_UK would be something like Black Hole? ) – Deep Aug 16 '17 at 04:40

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Current in that case would be (5- voltage drop across LED) /(Wire Resistance + Forward Resistance of LED) and will soon probably kill LED.

Deep
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  • The LED itself also has some resistance that depends on the current through it. – uhours Aug 15 '17 at 14:52
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    It seems the output pin of the AVR on that arduino typically has 25 ohm impedance aswell. https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/139305/input-output-pin-resistance-for-an-avr-microcontroller – Unimportant Aug 15 '17 at 15:00
  • Plus output impedance of 5V supply – Trevor_G Aug 15 '17 at 15:00
  • Plus impedance of solderd joint, plus increase in resistance cause by increasing temperature due to positive TCR. xD am I still missing anything? – Deep Aug 15 '17 at 16:02