Hi all, Referring to the ShiftOut example at http://arduino.cc/en/tutorial/ShiftOut , step 3, my question is: Is there any reason that one cannot or should not use a single resistor on the ground end of the circuit, instead of using multiple resistors, one for each of the LEDs, on the +ve end of th…

Resistors in a circuit

Coding_Badly April 29, 2014, 8:25am 2

Yes. Search for "LEDs in parallel".

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