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Old 01-27-2014, 10:32 AM
spdrun spdrun is offline
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Originally Posted by kerry View Post
LED bulbs won't work if they're connected to a battery with the leads reversed. Is that true in household bulb sockets also? Are household LED's 120v or 12v with a transformer in the bulb?
Not true, since A.C. switches between plus and minus. Reversing hot and neutral is more a safety issue than a functional one.

I don't think that LEDs contain a transformer -- probably a switching power supply to step the voltage down to something usable by the LED cluster.
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