Driving a big LED with a MOSFET

You only have about 2.5 volts of gate-source voltage, so the FET's not getting turned on very hard. Can you move the LED above the FET so the source is grounded? `

George H.

Yeah, that was it...thanks!

This would work better:

Yep. With the components in that order I'm getting enough current to overheat my resistor... :-)

Thanks!

Yeah, that was it...thanks! vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

The other correct answer would have been; use a P-channel MOSFET.

Sure. Throw out parts he already has, just to please you.

I expected better from you!!!

A whiner like you isn't worth the effort.

It's very hard to get any sleep when you're in pain 24/7 I haven't slept more that four hours at a time in over six months. A VA nurse asked how bad the pain was. I told her I was looking for a chain saw to cut my swollen & bloody legs off. She said, "That's just a two or maybe three, on a scale of 1 to 10." One VA doctor told me that I was already on a high dosage of pain medicine. 400 mg of Gabapentin three times a day doesn't do anything for any pain except diabetic neuropathy. He insisted that was a very high dose, and also refused to give me a few days prescription for Ambien, to try to break the erratic sleep pattern. He claimed that I would become addicted to it. My last prescription for Ambien was over 12 years ago. :(

You can only speak for yourself. The only sound in my head is Tinitus, and I wish that I could give that to you to go along with all your other problems.

So now you're going to start whingeing about how nasty nature has been to poor little you.

Pathetic!

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The only thing pathetic is you and your delusions of adequacy.

It looks like it's time for a baseball bat across his knees, since the rolled up newspaper to his snout didn't work.

What a weirdo!!!

Nope - for the past few days he's been demanding that I give his arse a good pounding, then threatened to do my kneecaps when I refused!

You two had a tiff and he's missing the choccolate porridge?

That option for the "Filter" you have, should be used. I have MT on it. I see him only in replies of others, and is still, that is to much.

Jamie

You really do have an ass fetish, like DimBulb. You two *must* be related.

Whenever JF runs out of arguments he always resorts to anal penetration insults - it seems pretty close to his first instincts.