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| RandyT:
--- Quote from: Kaytrim on March 22, 2007, 09:49:15 am ---It is possible that Randy doesn't have purple as an option from his LED supplier or they are not powerful enough to match the others. --- End quote --- That is precisely the issue. If they don't use the same type of lighting units, then I can't call them "NovaGems." Unfortunately, the palette of colors for these types is profoundly more limited than what is available in normal LED's. It was very fortunate that the yellow and orange were successful with what I had to work with. I like Kremmit's idea of giving some clear ones a dye bath and see what happens. I think I have some purple dye around here somewhere, so I'll give it a shot. OTOH, it might be hard to illuminate them without a proper purple light source, so that would be a factor as well. --- Quote ---I found several LED suppliers using Google that have the purple that you are looking for but I don't know if they would work the same as Randy's Button Blaster LEDs. Most of the purple LEDs I found had a luminosity (power) of 150 - 500 mcd (micro candle display). I don't know the luminosity of the LEDs that Randy carries so I cannot compare them. --- End quote --- The ButtonBlaster LED's are in the thousands of mcd, and have an appropriately wider view angle for lighting buttons. But don't confuse the ButtonBlaster LED's with the light source in the NovaGems. Light output in the NovaGem modules is roughly 5x that of the ButtonBlaster LED's. RandyT |
| Kaytrim:
--- Quote from: RandyT on March 22, 2007, 10:12:16 am --- The ButtonBlaster LED's are in the thousands of mcd, and have an appropriately wider view angle for lighting buttons. But don't confuse the ButtonBlaster LED's with the light source in the NovaGems. Light output in the NovaGem modules is roughly 5x that of the ButtonBlaster LED's. RandyT --- End quote --- :dizzy: And I thought that the Button Blasters were bright :dizzy: It would be interesting to see the NovaGem modules inside a standard button just to see how well they light up. I like bling but I am cheep. That is why I am using your button blasters on standard buttons in my cab. I'll post pics when I get to that point. TTFN :cheers: Kaytrim |
| Stobe:
Randy, Any plans of releasing a version of the novagem line using EI buttons with different single colored LEDs installed? I like the new idea of having the leads/resistor already hooked up (which BTW, I don't think I've seen a picture of yet). I used the EI buttons with the press-fit LEDs on my last project, and soldered wires to each LED lead individually. I'm still not sure how I connected them all up without breaking a single LED lead!?!? -Stobe |
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