Drive an LED direct from a PIC IO pin (ie no current limiting resistor)

[HankMcSpank]

Yish, me and remembering Mosfet Part # are two different animal

I would say go on Digikey website, type Mosfet SOT23, then shop by max current and Rds.

How much current you'll need?

Not much....8 possibly 12 leds....ay about 15mA each max ....say 180mA, I'll have a sniff on Digikey.....


Edit: Hmm: I'm thinking here that I'm only going to be switching 3.3V across the leds - do mosfets work ok that low? (all the ones I'm seeing on digikey are typically 20V VDS or more ...ok so that's a max figure, but never having worked with MOSFETS previously, are they ok with switching 3.3V well)