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where to buy LEDs
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2002 10:58 pm
by marscheese
anyone know of a good place to buy good, cheap high britness LEDs? (I'm looking for them in all different colours and quality is a priority over price)...
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2002 1:52 am
by jealous57
Try
http://www.directron.com
http://www.frozencpu.com
not sure on the brightness, but I know Frozen has them tailed, and nontailed.
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2002 11:34 am
by Hipnotic_Tranz
Run down to the local Radio Shack. Might cost ya a little extra money, but you don't have to pay for shipping and all.
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2002 5:53 pm
by Pugsley
ME!!! what do you have in mind? i probbly have it. And if i dont have it I can get it fast!
Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2002 7:08 am
by brdfryr123
You might try Second Byte Computers. It's in the 5000 block of south Madison Ave. I bought a half dozen or so (from the font panel) that they pulled from old AT cases the were scrapping, for $3.00 for all 6.
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2002 9:41 pm
by Pugsley
Just added... Magical color changeing 5mm leds... great for power LEDs on your computer! I want to get ahold of one of them quad blue LED fans and put thies color changing ones in it... they do have 5mm leds in them dont they? i never owned one so i dont know.
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2002 9:54 pm
by PreDatoR
3mm led's i believe... bright little suckers too well my antec 3 led fans are 3mm led's i'm sure those 4 led ones are also...
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 1:27 am
by Pugsley
Darn... oh well.. so much for color changing LED fans! I could still do it... it would just be Polish!
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 5:16 am
by marscheese
yeah, I just ordered some off of
http://www.glowire.com. I wanted green LED's and this is the ONLY place that I found that had green LED's this bright. They're even brighter than the blue (which are usually the king of all LEDs as far as brightness goes)...also ordered some colour changing LED's...should be interesting once I get them. I'll post once I start my mouse mod. Thanks for all the great links/suggestions.
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 12:09 pm
by d_b
I use christmas tree lights. Them suckers are pretty bright.
ROFL
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 12:17 pm
by eGoCeNTRoNiX
Ya know... :laugh I never thought of that. I may have to try that one!! They even come with their own wires!!! eGo
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2002 1:39 am
by canton_kid
I got a set of super bright led lights last year (after christmas sale).
They are like 2 volts each and have nice easy to solder legs on them. Sockets and wires included if you want to use them
Easy to replace when needed if you do.
Only thing I don't like about the ones I got are they are not round. Sort of rectangle or square.
I have looked every where and can not find a square drill bit that size (or any size even) for my cordless drill!
They are bright with nice color and very cool temp wise. I haven't done anything yet with mine but play with them. I plan to use them in the tower case mod I am doing soon as I can get back to it. Just got a new camera yesterday, other one bit the dust and stopped the project!
If you buy these make sure the set has the color you want. I think mine had yellow green and red, but NO blue.
I am sure there are different styles to the sets, but as an after Christmas sale. a 35 or 50 led string is a great deal! About 10 cents or less per led for the set and price of mine last year!
I have used the twinkle style lights for other stuff over the years, they are nice and cheap too, but give off heat so I don't want those in my case! But still great for other uses or external. Ok if your not worried about heat like for my pentium 133, but I may latter put in an over clocked XP so I'm not using them now. Also the twinkles can be dimmed easiley, leds probly can be too I just haven't tried it.