First time poster and a hobby EE enthusiast here.
I want to turn on a LED array with a transistor switch and I'm having trouble with determining what will the total resistance on my transistor collector be. And without that I can't determine what should my base resistor be.
This is part of my schema, the switch will be a pin on an Arduino that can supply 5V and max 40 mA:
I got the LED array scheme from an online LED array calculator and it gave me the info that the array draws 60 mA current - from which I figured I could get the total resistance of the array with Ohms Law: 12V/0.06A = 200 Ohm. If my collector resistor is 200 Ohm that would mean that my base resistor should be 2k7 Ohm.
Is that correct? Can a treat the array as 200 Ohm resistor on the collector? Or is the total resistance the parallel of 3 resistors - 110 Ohm? Any advice or a hint in the correct way is appreciated.
Thanks, Tadija
Edit: LED Red 2.0V, 20mA