Best way to Diffuse light on an led?

[AmericanDemon]

I am trying to find a simple way to diffuse light on an LED.  It will probably be a superbright led.  Not sure of sizing yet.  But I was curious as to what everyone else has tried....

[ChadTower]

Do you want to diffuse it or just dim it?  If you want to dim it, give it less voltage.

[Witchboard]

I'm going to have to diffuse a couple of LEDs on a project of mine and thought of sandblasting/sanding one side of a piece of plexi and put over it.  The pieces I'm looking at will probably be around a nickle to quarter size.

[RandyT]

Paint them with superglue and then sprinkle them with glass sandblast beads?


I haven't tried it, but it sounds like it should work


RandyT

[Dire Radiant]

Sand the outside with 400 grit sandpaper. You can make it light more evenly by sanding the rounded end flat. A lot of PC case modders have used this technique to good effect.

[rdagger]

You can just buy diffused LED's.

[AmericanDemon]

I tried looking for diffused ones... but alas, I could only find red ones.  I will try the sanding of them and see how it works out. 

Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll try them one at a time.

[rdagger]

I tried looking for diffused ones... but alas, I could only find red ones.