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An LED with 4 leads is most likely a 3 color RGB LED with one common anode lead an 3 separate cathode leads (one for the red LED, one for the green LED, one for the blue LED). If so it should be installed as 3 individual LEDs.

However, this may not be the case. It may be a special device containing an IC and one or more LEDs controlled by that IC.

In either case you will HAVE to consult the manufacturer's datasheet to correctly identify the function of the leads prior to installation (which I almost automatically assumed was obvious and forgot to mention... until I reread the question and realized that anyone that would even bother to ask such a question probably doesn't even know that datasheets exist, or they would have already answered the question themselves by reading the datasheet).

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