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[Norman]

I've ordered a bunch of stuff here, and it went very well! I'd like to make one additional recommendation, or maybe others found a good souce.

I'm interesting in getting Nichia LEDs. Nichia America sells them, but their prices are terrible unless you buy a thousand. I'm specifically interested in the NSTM515AS, RGB one. They sell for $9/ea, or $2 in quantity(!).

I see many PIC-related projects that use them, and I'd love to play around with larger quantities on the cheap.

Thanks!

[Norman]

Oops, wrong forum. Can it be moved to the new products one, thanks!

[Pryankster]

not that I want to discourage SparkFun from picking up new products, but check out LSDiodes, they sell RGB led's for $1.10 each (I don't know if they are the Nichia LEDs, but they're pretty cool).

-- pryankster

[sparky]

LSDiodes is a really nice site! I've been contimplating RGB leds for a bit.

Is there any benefit to Nichia? $2 is a bit high.

-Nathan

[Norman]

While I don't have any of those cheap ones, I did get some from superbrightleds.com, which are about $1.69 ea. I have some from Nichia (at $5 ea), and they are both far brighter, more uniform in terms of output, and far more consistent between LEDs. Most of the pros use them, see this for a cool example:

http://www.nw.com/nw/projects/cubatron/

[Norman]

I see the ones at LSDiodes.com are temporarily unavailable. I was thinking about trying a few out in order to compare them. For my uses, I prefer the milky lens, not clear.

Spec sheet for the Nichia ones is at:

http://www.nichia.co.jp/specification/l ... M515AS.pdf