Hi, Do you know what the difference is, are they brighter do they have any built in voltage protection
Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: Nigel Stanley To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Making your own LED bulbs I think the yellow ones are surface mount devices. They will not have pins in the same way as "ordinary" LEDs and are harder to work with. 2009/5/6 rigdent <[email protected]>: > >> >> 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. > > Brian I think the yellow ones only look like that because you are looking straight through the cap onto the emitting surface. The LED itself has to be protected from the environment by some sort of case otherwise they die very quickly. > > Regards > > Terry > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Nigel Stanley [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
