>Some years back i did some work with ultrabright ledsi milled the casing >down >and placed a large heatsink on one of the leads, cant remember but it was >the >one that generated all the heat :), i buult a circut that pulsed the led and >the >draw was around 10amps, the LED puty out a bright light that could be >focused via a lens and was my first ever solid state simulated lazer. >cant remember what the duty cycle was but i think it was somewhere >around 15 to 20% > >Pulsing LED's works prety well in my book > >Andrew Hooper What voltage did you feed the LED? I think I just fed one too much voltage because my room smells funny now :) Afshin Salehi -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body