Nuts and Volts - June 2010

A kit to go with these experiments can be purchased from the Nuts & Volts Webstore at www.nutsvolts.com or call us at 800-783-4624.

Pictorial Diagram anode

cathode

These experiments are provided by GSSTechEd.

www.gssteched.com

You can order parts for this experiment from their website as follows: (Resistors)

GK01049 220 ohms GK01065 1K ohms GK01077 3.3K ohms GK01094 16K ohms GK06001 LED

GK35002 Battery Snap Gk45011 Wires Check out their website for electronic certification courses,

basic electronic labs, and 100s of kits.

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