{"id":41,"date":"2008-09-26T16:50:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T20:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2009-06-03T22:56:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T05:56:56","slug":"using-the-omnimeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Using the Multimeter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>PComp &#8211; Lab 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To further impress basic electrical principles, we setup LEDs in series and parallel configurations on our breadboards and took measurements to understand how components share voltage.\u00a0 Upon hooking up three LEDs in series, I found that they didn&#8217;t light, so I assume the minimum voltage required was more than 1.6V.\u00a0 Another observation was that when they are in series, the 220K resistor isn&#8217;t needed since the second LED serves its purpose.\u00a0 One other observation was that the power supply I used said 9V, but supplied 12.8V, so the importance of having a regulator in-line is apparent.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t fry your components people!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"320\" height=\"255\" data=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/Ac+1RI+6Eg\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/Ac+1RI+6Eg\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The LEDs didn&#8217;t read the same voltage, but these voltages were fluctuating, so it was probably just my timing.\u00a0 Also, I feel that there would be a slightly higher average to the component directly connected to ground.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"320\" height=\"255\" data=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/Ac+1W4+6Eg\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/Ac+1W4+6Eg\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"320\" height=\"255\" data=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/Ac+2ZY+6Eg\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/Ac+2ZY+6Eg\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PComp &#8211; Lab 3 To further impress basic electrical principles, we setup LEDs in series and parallel configurations on our breadboards and took measurements to understand how components share voltage.\u00a0 Upon hooking up three LEDs in series, I found that they didn&#8217;t light, so I assume the minimum voltage required was more than 1.6V.\u00a0 Another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physical-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}