Hi, Terry Thanks for the links they are very helpful, the shop only appears to sell the ones with the plastic/glass domes, have you ever seen the yellow material type I mentioned, you can see them on the link below in completed bulbs that was given earlier, but I haven't been able to find anywhere that sells these actual types of LED separately or whether they are better or worse than the dome types.
http://www.ultraleds.co.uk/spot-light-cool-white-mr16gu53-1218v-acdc-p-1639.html Thanks Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: rigdent To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 10:39 AM Subject: [canals-list] Re: Making your own LED bulbs I've been hanging LED off of model airplanes for a while with good results. i get mine from http://www.component-shop.co.uk/ at about 19p each and use this wizard to figure out the resistor. http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz Now the voltage on a toy aeroplane doesn't vary as much as on a boat but so far I've had no problems. I set the resistor to cope with teh max expected voltage. I would have thought a zenner diode could smooth out any voltage spikes. Regards Terry [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
