Looking for a good place to purchase superbright blue leds?

[Popcorrin]

Title pretty much says it all. Thanks

[whammoed]

Ebay...great price, usually narrow angle and sometimes dubious consistency
groovygamegear
www.superbrightleds.com  (reliable specs posted on site)

[divemaster127]

I stock the ultimarc blue triple leds, they are 1.90 each
dm

[Franco B]

I got all mine off ebay, 100 superbrights with 100 resistors for £10 ($20) delivered to the UK from HK. Not had a bad one yet.

[MonMotha]

As a point of caution, be sure you consult the datasheet for your LEDs of choice regarding lifetime.  Most of the cheap blue LEDs will start out REALLY bright but dim quite noticeably after only a few hundred hours.  Quality LEDs will have lifetime data in their datasheets.  I've had pretty good luck with initial reliability (1 DOA of about 500 from a manufacturing run recently done), but past experience indicates lifetime is a more arduous test.

If you want LEDs so bright you probably can't look at them, try the Luxeon I, III, or V.  Sparkfun sells these.  Note that these are so bright they need special heatsinking.

[Popcorrin]

Thanks, guys.