I've had good luck with an outfit called Besthongkong - they're on EBay as well. It was either 50 or 100 Blues for about $13 Canadian, shipped from Hong Kong. Half as many white ones for the same price. Never really had a problem with any not working. (Only problem was the newfangled pink one I bought is now white, but I suspect I was putting too much through it) -Randy Glenn Jason S wrote: >Chi Wing is a major Hong Kong producer of LEDs. They also sell their >products on ebay at very cheap prices. > >Their store is here: http://stores.ebay.com/Chi-Wing-LED-product-shop > >10 red 5000mcd LEDs are $3US including shipping from Hong Kong. >For 5000mcd white, it's $3.20, and the 10,000mcd whites are $13 for 50. > >I've bought from them a few times; the LEDs are good quality quality, but >I've had some arrive not working (expect a 10% failure rate and you won't be >disappointed). Shipping takes about 2 weeks, but for the price, I can't >complain about that. > >Jason > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Herbert Graf" >To: >Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:55 AM >Subject: [EE:] Source for bright LEDs > > > > >>Looking to replace the indicator lights on my car with LEDs (why? because >> >> >I > > >>can... :) ). >> >>Anyways, I tried some of the LEDs available locally to me but they aren't >>bright enough. >> >>Anybody know of a CHEAP source of BRIGHT red and orange LEDs? >> >>I'd love to use white LEDs (MAN are they bright) but that's just too >>expensive. >> >>Prefer T1-3/4 size (5mm). I'm in Canada. Thanks for any leads. >> >>TTYL >> >>---------------------------------- >>Herbert's PIC Stuff: >>http://repatch.dyndns.org:8383/pic_stuff/ >> >>-- >>http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics >>(like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics >> >> >> >> > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics >(like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics