Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!strong From: strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: speaking of LEDs Message-ID: <5383@fluke.COM> Date: 29 Sep 88 16:47:48 GMT References: <491@ole.UUCP> Sender: news@tc.fluke.COM Distribution: na Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 19 In article <491@ole.UUCP> ray@ole.UUCP (Ray Berry) writes: }Ok- now that blue LEDs are under control again... } This past weekend I saw a product that had a very bright red LED lamp }in it. The product literature reproduced (evidently) two of the charts }from the data sheet- one showing spectral frequency vs relative output }(peak @ 650 nm), the other showing luminosity vs. current - which was }spec'ed at 3000 millicandellas at 20 ma. forward current. No other data }was given. Physically, it was a T-1 package, nothing unusual. } Now that is a very high-output LED. Does anyone know who makes such }an item? The fellow representing the product said he had to import them- }whatever that means. But he would not tell me who made them. Not being }a whiz on opto stuff, I hereby submit the matter to the collective con- }sciousness of the net. I suspect that the units were microcandelas. Product literature people are not that careful, as a usual thing. Why don't you check with the mfgr. -- Norm (strong@tc.fluke.com)