At 08:28 AM 7/4/01 -0400, you wrote:
>[LED buld replacements]
>> why cant I just buy a light
>> source built onto a pcboard that just screws into the socket.
>
>This is coming, but not quite yet.  The price would still be too high to
>achieve the volumes necessary.  Note that LED lights are currently going
>into applications where the cost of changing the bulb is very high, the
>light gets switched on/off frequently, and the light is an indicator as
>apposed to providing general illumination.

Also, as indicators, most of them are monochromatic (traffic signals, brake
lights on buses), where most of the energy from the incandescent is wasted
in the filter.

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