IDENTIFY THE ANODE/CATHODE of LED's

IDENTIFY THE ANODE/CATHODE of LED's



While referring to any schematic involving led's we sometimes get confused with the identification of the terminals. So for identification , led’s comes with a unique way to identify its terminals as Anode or Cathode. Sometime the diode symbol creates confusion too.Identifing a LED's the cathode and anode of a led is very easy by looking inside.
LED's or Light Emitting Diode's don’t come with any labeling on it to identify Cathode(-ve,GND) or Anode(+ve).

I hope the figure below can solve this problem of identification.


Notice the picture carefully and compare it with the LED diode symbol, that should tell which one is –ve and +ve terminal. As they have to be crystall clear to glow so they don’t have any labeling on it , so the only way to know is either to test it with a multimeter or by carefully observing inside the led . The larger end inside the led is -ve and the shorter one is +ve, that is how we find out the polarity of a LED






Save this picture for reference.


NOTE: I took this picture myself from my camera , Please Do not mind for image clarity ,so i have put some labellings also .



THANKS FOR READING

RON

Rakesh Mondal



www.rakeshmondal.info

CATHODE AND ANODE OF LED



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