I've just made up a 24 LED assembly on a piece of project board. It has 13kmcd white LED's running off of 1/4 watt 470 ohm resistors. The dang resistors get so hot they melt my hot glue and you can't touch them, and I'm afraid to install it now. It was going to be a replacement for the dome light over the cargo area in my exp. Should I seal it with something else and install it? I'm not sure how hot it is, and my infrared thermometer is at work Or should I not be cheap and go to radio shack and load up on 1/2 watt resistors? I really don't want to have to remove all my resistors and replace them, but thats a heck of a lot better than chucking the whole thing and starting over, or worse, burning up my exp.
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