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Suitable LEDs for normal Happ buttons?
Buddabing:
--- Quote from: cholin on March 31, 2005, 03:35:56 pm ---Theres a site to buy LEDs at www.lsdiodes.com
There's a resistor calculator at www.metku.net under modding.
I have a thread about LED brightness that hasnt gotten any real answers or pictures in the "Everything Else" section. I plan on lighting buttons too, but I also plan on putting LEDs under my panel to light parts up.
At lsdiodes, a very bright one only costs a good 90 cents, whereas the cheaper ones cost 45 cents.
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I got 11000 mcd white LEDs for .26 each shipped on ebay. Check user "besthongkong."
cholin:
Whoa thanks alot, cant argue with the prices, or the feedback ratings.
Trimoor:
But you can argue with quality. I haven't tried either, but I've heard some of the cheap ones don't produce a very good beam of light. Often the white LEDs have plenty of blue spots in them, resulting from cheap manufacture. You probably won't notice a difference when they are diffused though. Yet another ominous thing to think about.
johnnysmitch, are the lighted buttons translucent or opaque? What color are they when unlit? And is that a space invaders game being played where a coin door would normally be?
cholin:
I remember seeing that project before. He scratched the design into plexi or something by hand and lit it.
rhoelsch:
Geez, I was figuring I would get a lot of superbrights replies, since everyone talks about them. Theoretically speaking I guess that you can go with the brightest you can find that'll fit into a pushbutton body...I mean, you can't really go too bright, can ya?
...oh, and johnnysmitch, that panel's the purdyest darn thing I've seen in a while! I'm assuming those aren't white happs--they look too good...
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