(Jeff Peterson) wrote in message yes, individual resistors make sense. i did switch to this scheme.

turns out, for the six leds that i used in the tail strobe, the
forward voltages match well enough to allow parallel connection. but
i still used individual resitors.

the white luxeons have a forward voltage too high to allow series
conncetion of the leds (with a 12 v system).

-Jeff

What is the forward voltage on those parts? You should put as many in
series as you can get away with. So if the forward voltage is really
high, maybe you go with parllel strings of series 2 or whatever. The
degree to which you can string them in series effects the efficiency
of the lighting system (luminous flux/power consumed).