> wouldn't matter. Do LEDs ever fail short ?

I see JG anticipated my response.
Yes, LEDs do sometimes fail short.
And on occasion a failed 5mm LED will fail hard-short  enough to fry a swit=
ch.
A manufacturer was meant to put series resistors in series with 6 LEDs
that were in parallel.
They instead used a common series resistor. Very naughty.

Occasionally a single LED would go short and occasionally this
resulted in magic smoke from the switch. Which suggests that it was
more closely rated than it ought to hve been.



 Russell
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