LED's

[librarianliam]

Bart or anybody else... can you tell me what the MCD intensity means...http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102851&cp=2032058.2032233.2032298&parentPage=family

[imnotmikal]

im not that sure, but i think its the brightness

[BART]

yes it is the brightness. MCD means millicandella, and candella is a measure of lights intensity. I dont know the math on this one but the higher the mcd the brighter the light basically.

[librarianliam]

hey i found this website what do you think... http://www.superbrightleds.com/leds.htm
and could you use ultraviolet??? would it help at all

[BART]

hey i found this website what do you think... http://www.superbrightleds.com/leds.htm
and could you use ultraviolet??? would it help at all

nice site...but uv is like a blacklight right? Only shows up against fluorescents?

[librarianliam]

uv is like black light... and does the viewing angle matter?

[BART]

I dont know much about the viewing angle (although i assume some led's are meant for broad range and some are focused like a spotlight)

[librarianliam]

30 degrees isn't too small but i think those led's would be bright enough and they are really cheap... $.87 each

[BART]

30 degrees is like a floodlight, not sure what you want them for but they would make pretty good headlights i think. I imagine that the lower the degree the more intense the beam.

[librarianliam]

i want to make a custom light bar for my hummer... and just to help people out on the forum who need LED's...

[BART]

do some more research and put something together (in your words...i like that) and I'll stick it to the top.

[librarianliam]

if you mounted an LED with a 90 degree viewing angle would that go across the whole front of the car... im kinda confused on the viewing angles once mounted...

[BART]

I think it means the optimal angle in which the light would be projected. so a 90 would spread light off of both sides and the front equally instead of concentrating it out the front as a 30 or less would do. I am just assuming here so dont take my word for it.

[Galkinater]

$.87 is not cheap i should know my brother is the owner of Auto X Systems a digital lighting co.http://www.com/ (http://www.autoxsystems.com/) so i get all of my leds and electronics for free. he gets then really cheap.

[BART]

$.87 is not cheap i should know my brother is the owner of Auto X Systems a digital lighting co.http://www.autoxsystems.com/ so i get all of my leds and electronics for free. he gets then really cheap.

well your brother is not our brother so we dont get them for free:)

[librarianliam]

free is cheaper than anything...but $.87 is better than 4 or 5 on ebay or radioshack

[Galkinater]

yeah but $.87 is still to much. you could get them cheaper on ebay

[BART]

yeah but $.87 is still to much. you could get them cheaper on ebay

show me led's SHIPPED to your house cheaper. (not in bulk)

[librarianliam]

i couldnt tell if they had free shipping or not.... they were kinda vague on that...

[BART]

i couldnt tell if they had free shipping or not.... they were kinda vague on that...

minimum 5 bucks shipping...the point was that you probably couldnt find them cheaper on ebay unless you bought in bulk.

[librarianliam]

yeah shipping is more than that on ebay... and they have led's that are bright enough to be headlights... whats the voltage that comes out of the light ports...

[BART]

I'm not sure...sorry

[librarianliam]

i got a multimeter today so i guess i can figure it out later