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    LDR: LDRs or Light Dependent Resistors Are Very Useful Especially

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    LDRs or Light Dependent Resistors are sensors that change resistance based on light levels - when dark the resistance is very high but light causes the resistance to drop dramatically. In a circuit, when dark the high LDR resistance prevents current from flowing through transistors to power an LED, but light lowers the LDR resistance allowing current to activate the transistors and glow the LED.

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    LDRs or Light Dependent Resistors are sensors that change resistance based on light levels - when dark the resistance is very high but light causes the resistance to drop dramatically. In a circuit, when dark the high LDR resistance prevents current from flowing through transistors to power an LED, but light lowers the LDR resistance allowing current to activate the transistors and glow the LED.

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    LDRs or Light Dependent Resistors are sensors that change resistance based on light levels - when dark the resistance is very high but light causes the resistance to drop dramatically. In a circuit, when dark the high LDR resistance prevents current from flowing through transistors to power an LED, but light lowers the LDR resistance allowing current to activate the transistors and glow the LED.

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    LDR:

    LDRs or Light Dependent Resistors are very useful especially in light/dark sensor
    circuits. Normally the resistance of an LDR is very high, sometimes as high as 1000 000
    ohms, but when they are illuminated with light resistance drops dramatically.

    When the light level is low the resistance of the LDR is high. This prevents current from
    flowing to the base of the transistors. Consequently the LED does not light.

    However, when light shines onto the LDR its resistance falls and current flows into the
    base of the first transistor and then the second transistor. The LED glows.

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