Electronic – How to figure which LED I need

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I need to replace two LED diodes on a TP4056 board (bottom right corner on the picture).

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The board is going to be in a box and I want to move diodes to the small holes in the box.

There are two resistors with marks 102, and that is 1 kilohm. I measured voltage on diodes and my multi-meter said 2.7 V.

I want to use something like this:

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Those diodes are 3 V 20 mAh. Can they replace exiting diodes?

update:

Thank you guys. You helped me a lot.

Btw, current LEDs are blue and red

Best Answer

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Figure 1. Typical IV curves for various colours of LEDs. Image source: LEDnique.

Replacement of any of those small indicator LEDs with 3 or 5 mm LEDs should be fine.

A little bit of background theory may help. LEDs have a non-linear relationship between applied voltage and current. The forward voltage also depends on the colour as shown in Figure 1.

Your measured 3 V LED voltage suggests that you've got either white or blue LEDs on the board. With the 1 kΩ resistor in series the current will be limited to a safe value even if you change to one with a lower forward voltage.