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So the lone LED in the middle, with two resistors, is going to be on all the time, as a night light to the night light.

If the rest of the LEDs are on a switch, will I have to run two completely separate wires for the single LED, isolating it on its own circuit?

I'm tentatively planning on doing that, using heat shrink or something like that to tidy up the wires, then use two DC barrel jacks to connect each set of wires to the board. Are there any potential problems with this plan?

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[–] sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I'm the middle of reading your comment I realized what I did wrong when making it in the breadboard.

So I got the switch and parallel LEDs working, but the single LED connected directly to positive wouldn't light. The resistor and LED made a loop back onto the same positive side of the breadboard, so the current had no reason to flow through them.