5600mcd ultrabright WHITE LED $4.95 + shipping

[nairi]

I've never seen a white LED, and at 5600mcd this is the brightest LED I've ever encountered.

LED

 

[Sensor]

http://www.markhannahsurplus.com/leds.php

The Star-O comes in many colors and dispersion patterns. The White one is 180 cd (180,000 mcd) and costs like $20. The red one is 750 cd, and works great for lighting cases off the power supply!

--Ed

 

[MyBuds]

white LEDs have been around for years.

 

[msbytes]

Streamlight makes awesome led flashlights Text

 

[nairi]

damn 180,000 WOW!!!!! thisis crazy, can that blind an average human??

 

[veetron]

I've done business with these folks and am very pleased. Their prices are less than $3 each. I put seven white LED's in crown molding around my son's room and it looks great. All his friends wish they had something like it.
http://www.onestoplights.com/

 

[Perplexer]

5600mcd? 180000mcd?! Aaaauugh, my brain burns!!!

I'm still pissed because I'd planned to patent LED-based traffic lights and automobile taillights years ago, and never bothered. Had I done so, I might never have a need for another Hot Deal again

 

[nairi]

[]V[]uhahahahahhahhaha, you know I had the same Idea a couple of years back, but only for car signal lights.

 

[Fiveohhh]

Are these the white light like you'd find in HID lights, or is it just a clear light, with more of an incadescent look?

 

[BigEdMuustaffa]

<< I've never seen a white LED, and at 5600mcd this is the brightest LED I've ever encountered.

LED >>



5600 mcd??? You gonna use your computer for computing, or you gonna drive it at night?

 

[krashx6]

Exactly how bright are these things and how big are they? I wanted to get a little light that could light up a whole entire room. Was looking at the ones on thinkgeek.com... are they good? and where can i get just a basic keychain one that is bright as hell

 

[Kelvrick]

Tshh... The Fry's in Sac got some 10CD, thats 10000mcd 5mm leds. I'm just trying to figure out how to supply it enough power without having to mess wtih my power supply wires. I touched one to my fan connectors, and it promptly blew into lil pieces.

 

[arcas]

Good Lord. A single red LED rated at 750 -candela-. At first I thought these guys added a lense to focus all the output into a couple degrees viewing angle. But no, they're rated at a 10-degree viewing angle. Still pretty narrow but...wow.

For comparison, I bought some 3.5 candela yellow Fairchild LEDs last year and found them very bright--enough to cause spots before your eyes if you look into the beam. Until now, the brightest LED I've seen was a 35 candela monster that had a tiny viewing angle (5 deg or somesuch).

These Luxeons need around 17x more current than my Fairchilds but are rated at 171x the brightness. Viewing angle is roughly the same for both designs (10deg for the Luxeon, 12deg for the Fairchild). Wow. Connect two Luxeon amber's in series and you'd have a 1200 candela flashlight that draws around 350ma from a 6V battery.

Sounds like a project...

 

[esoteric0]

<< Exactly how bright are these things and how big are they? I wanted to get a little light that could light up a whole entire room. Was looking at the ones on thinkgeek.com... are they good? and where can i get just a basic keychain one that is bright as hell >>



i bought a photon III from botach tactical (from a link i found on here, no less) and it's pretty darn bright. just fyi: i got a red one and a white one. the white one is very, very bright, but it uses two 3V batteries and is supposed to last 12 hours. the red on uses one 3v battery and is supposed to last 120 hours. something you might want to think about when purchasing.

 

[ICantAffordIt]

Those Photon keychains are bright... I have a white one. You'd be surprised how many times you find yourself using it when it's attached to your keys... I use it all the time. I got mine from www.photonlight.com. They have the white Photon III for $26 shipped. It has a microprocessor control so you get 3 beam intensities and 3 strobe speeds, plus auto shut-off... and no, I don't work for them I just really like the product.

 

[DoOLiE11]

yeah i got a photon 3 too, a white one

good for fishing

 

[Rat007]

those are some bright l.e.d.s!
I grabbed some of these Red Ultrabright L.E.Ds to make brake/turn signal lights that should last forever at .35 cents each for 10+ so i grabbed 20 now to figure out the wiring end

 

[Startide Rising]

If you have an interest in LED or devices using LED, you might want to visit the LED MUSEUM which has photos, charts, history, and comparison info between different LED flashlights. For example, you can see photographs of how bright each LED light is in the dark, plus how big a spot they illuminute.

 

[Sachmho]

just bought 2 luxeon star 0 white l.e.d.'s... planning on using them in conjunction for a monster light source... anyone have any suggestions on what kind of batteries i can/should use, and how to (specifically) wire this thing to power it?

 

[pete777]