Can I power a LED with a AA battery

[cybereclipse]

The LED is 18,000 mcd Super White LED from superbrightleds.com (RL5-W18030) and is currently powered by a 3V cell battery. A AA battery is 1.2V, its not dangerous to power it with that lesser voltage battery right?

 

[GSAV55]

correct, it just wont be as bright (if it were something more complicated, you would have to worry about watts an stuff, but for a lil led your straight.)

 

[TFT]

As said it won't damage anything, but why not use two AA batteries in series to give you 2.4 volts and make it brighter.

 

[Vizy]

or u can use 3 AA's and make fire!

Naw i was joking, but yea, 1 AA would make it noticeably dimmer.

 

[oscaryu1]

As said it won't damage anything, but why not use two AA batteries in parallel to give you 2.4 volts and make it brighter.

Wouldn't that just double the amperage?

 

[TFT]

Wouldn't that just double the amperage?

You are correct sir I meant to write series to double the voltage. Edited my post