Hmm, I was just looking at some 20.000 mcd white  LCD's on offer there. 
  Now I haven't seen anything with a similar output outside of Ebay. 
Could this be a bogus claim?
as in:  you will get 20.000 mcd but the LED will only last 5 
seconds....?

Michiel

On 05 apr 2005, at 17:30, Mike Hord wrote:

> Be careful with those ebay LEDs.  Likely to be factory seconds,
> with low homogeneity and poor reliability.  Good for cheap hobby
> projects, but I'd steer clear for anything someone will actually use
> over the long term, or where each LED is expected to be remotely
> similar to its neighbor in brightness.

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