Dear All,
I am now working on design of a PCBA Tester. The PCBA I am going to test has a few LEDs. After assembly process, we will design a test station where the LED in PCBA will be checked for open/short/reverse polarity. The basic concept of the design include pumping in the current into LED via USB connector power supply (hope I could use up to 500 mA).The idea is to use USB connector from PC as a power supply to pump in the current into the LEDs. There, I will add a 50 ohm resistor between the cathode of the LED and the 5 V USB Gnd. The voltage will be read from the LED to determine its condition. Practically testing it, if the LED is worngly mounted in reverse polarity, at least 50 mA is sinking into the PCBA. I wish to know whether this amount would do any harm to the PCBAs. Can anybody give me some advice on this? please help. I am also looking for alternative ways.
Regards