Digikey has $25 minimum.
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~Kevin

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, John N. Power wrote:

> > From:         Marc[SMTP:marc@GEEKYTHINGS.COM]
> > Sent:         Monday, July 05, 2004 3:29 PM
> > To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject:      [EE]: IR LED recommendations?
>
> > I'm looking to build a small serial port based IR transmitter for
> > controlling a cable TV box...something similar to the schematics for lIRC.
>
> > Any recommendations on a decent T1 or T13/4 sized IR LED that would be
> > available from Digikey?
>
> > Obviously needs to be something relatively low powered as it's being
> > driven from a serial port (which a suitable capacitor acting as a charge
> > pump).
>
> > TIA :-)
>
>
> > -marc
>
> A search for "IR LED" on Digi-Key only returned 2 IR leds, both of which
> had fiber optic outputs. Perhaps a more careful search would have found
> something more, but my Radio Shack catalog (2001) shows a
>
> "High-output Infrared LED" in T 1 3/4 size, 20mA, 1.3 VDC, 940nm
> wavelength, as RS part number 276-143, $1.69
>
> John Power
>
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