Avago now has fiber LED assemblies, if that helps Zik Saleeba wrote: I was trying to get as intense a point light source as possible. One method I tried was to drill a small hole directly into the front of a luxeon and insert an optic fiber through the hole until it was almost touching the die. It worked ok but there was an awful lot of lost light so I gave up on that approach. Cheers, Zik On 9/4/07, Cedric Chang wrote: > Zik > > Would you expand on what you were doing with the Luxeons ? > > Best > Cedric > > > > On Sep 3, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Zik Saleeba wrote: > > I've actually experimented with drilling holes in Luxeons to do this. > It works but you have to be very careful not to tear the plastic bezel > right off the die. > > Cheers, > Zik > > On 9/4/07, Tony Smith wrote: > >> IIRC some time ago (years?) someone (Jinx?) was experimenting > >> with shining light in Plexiglas by attaching a led on the > >> edge of the sheet. > >> I have been looking for this thread with no avail. I would > >> greatly appreciate if anyone that remember that discussion > >> could give me a pointer to it. > >> Gaston Gagnon > > > > > > Agilent have a good PDF on that sort of thing, Google 'Agilent LED > > light > > pipe' or similar. > > > > Quite a few good tips. Like embed the LED (drill a hole) in the > > plastic, or > > epoxy it to reduce losses caused light bouncing off the edge of the > > plastic. > > It also talks about drilling holes in the LED so you can put a > > fibre optic > > cable right over the die, but that's probably a bit excessive. > > > > Tony > > > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > > View/change your membership options at > > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist --------------------------------- Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist