Matt Thorn
05-10-2011, 03:13 AM
...to put under the glass eye of a vintage Graflex. A nice, blue LED to light up the glass eye, without taking up too much much space. Preferably flat.
So last night I'm online, S.U.I. (shopping under the influence), and I find what looks to be just the thing.
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Looks sweet, huh? Just the thing!
Now maybe I was feeling...small...at the time, because those dimensions (2 x 1.5mm) seemed perfectly reasonable to me.
This morning they arrived bright and early, and, still half asleep, I opened the package and was confused by what I found. Two small ziplock bags containing what looked like black, ribbed bands of some kind. So I put on my reading glasses and looked more closely. Turns out the bands were the packages--each containing 50 LEDs.
Here's a photo of what I found inside one of the bands:
5169
No, it's not a Luxeon III. I put that in there so you sabersmiths would have a reference for scale.
Here. Let me zoom in for you:
5170
Yup. It's the tiny white and yellow thing sitting on the top of the Lux, at the five o'clock position.
It's about 1/5 the size of one of the Lux's soldering pads.
That little fleck takes 3V, 20mA, and puts out 270mcd.
Mind you, this is the larger of the two types I bought. The other is half the size of this one.
The burning question, of course, is how the heck I'm going to solder the thing. I wonder if I can teach one of my sugar gliders how to solder. Baby Kinako should be just the right size for the job:
5171
So last night I'm online, S.U.I. (shopping under the influence), and I find what looks to be just the thing.
5168
Looks sweet, huh? Just the thing!
Now maybe I was feeling...small...at the time, because those dimensions (2 x 1.5mm) seemed perfectly reasonable to me.
This morning they arrived bright and early, and, still half asleep, I opened the package and was confused by what I found. Two small ziplock bags containing what looked like black, ribbed bands of some kind. So I put on my reading glasses and looked more closely. Turns out the bands were the packages--each containing 50 LEDs.
Here's a photo of what I found inside one of the bands:
5169
No, it's not a Luxeon III. I put that in there so you sabersmiths would have a reference for scale.
Here. Let me zoom in for you:
5170
Yup. It's the tiny white and yellow thing sitting on the top of the Lux, at the five o'clock position.
It's about 1/5 the size of one of the Lux's soldering pads.
That little fleck takes 3V, 20mA, and puts out 270mcd.
Mind you, this is the larger of the two types I bought. The other is half the size of this one.
The burning question, of course, is how the heck I'm going to solder the thing. I wonder if I can teach one of my sugar gliders how to solder. Baby Kinako should be just the right size for the job:
5171