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Raspberry Pi GPIO LED Driver

Typ SchaltplanStandard IEEE Std 315 / ANSI Y32.2Engine schematex-circuitAktualisiert 7.9.2026
Raspberry Pi GPIO LED Driver
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Das Szenario

A Raspberry Pi GPIO pin cannot source enough current for a high-power LED, so an NPN transistor is used as a low-side switch with an external 5V supply.

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Die dahinterstehenden Entscheidungen verstehen.

01

Use a 1k base resistor to limit GPIO current while saturating the transistor

02

Add a 10k pull-down resistor so the LED stays off when the GPIO is floating

03

Power the LED from an external 5V rail through a 330R current-limiting resistor, not from the GPIO pin

Use this pattern whenever a microcontroller I/O pin must control a load that draws more current than the pin can safely provide.

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