{"id":3684,"date":"2020-03-07T10:21:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T04:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeelectronics.in\/appmb\/?post_type=product&#038;p=3684"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:44:42","slug":"5mm-dual-color-led","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/zeeelectronics.in\/appmb\/product\/5mm-dual-color-led\/","title":{"rendered":"5MM DUAL COLOR LED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first-token\" data-path-to-node=\"0\"><span class=\"\">A <\/span><b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"0\" data-index-in-node=\"2\">5mm Dual Color LED<\/b><span class=\"\"> (also known as a Bi-color LED) is a single LED package that contains two different colored light-emitting diodes (usually Red and Green).<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\"><span class=\"\">There are two main ways these are designed,<\/span><span class=\"\"> and they work very differently depending on how many pins they have.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"2\" \/>\n<h2 class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"3\">1. The 3-Pin Version (Common Pin)<\/h2>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\"><span class=\"\">This is the most common type.<\/span><span class=\"\"> It works exactly like a simplified RGB LED.<\/span><span class=\"\"> It has one shared pin and two individual pins for the colors.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul data-path-to-node=\"5\">\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5,0,0\"><b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"5,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">How it works:<\/b><span class=\"\"> You can turn on the Red side,<\/span><span class=\"\"> the Green side,<\/span><span class=\"\"> or both at the same time to create a third color (usually <\/span><b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"5,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"118\">Yellow\/Orange<\/b><span class=\"\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5,1,0\"><b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"5,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Common Cathode:<\/b><span class=\"\"> The long pin goes to <\/span><b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"5,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"37\">Ground (-)<\/b><span class=\"\">.<\/span><span class=\"\"> You apply power to the other pins to light them.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5,2,0\"><b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"5,2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Common Anode:<\/b><span class=\"\"> The long pin goes to <\/span><b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"5,2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"35\">Positive (+)<\/b><span class=\"\">.<\/span><span class=\"\"> You connect the other pins to Ground to light them.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>5MM DUAL COLOR LED<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[70],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3684","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-led","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"taxable","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeelectronics.in\/appmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeelectronics.in\/appmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeelectronics.in\/appmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeelectronics.in\/appmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeelectronics.in\/appmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeelectronics.in\/appmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeelectronics.in\/appmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeelectronics.in\/appmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeelectronics.in\/appmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}