Rick: For avoiding any potential safety risks I will suggest to you calculate AEL ( Accessible Emission Limits ) for LED"s that you going to use in your Product.
Yury Vygovsky E D C] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 11:28 AM Subject: Lasing LEDs > >A few months back there was a discussion on this list regarding the >potential for LEDs to laze if overdriven. As I recall the issue pointed to >the IEC 825-1: LED Optical Safety standard and the concern for possible >testing all LEDs. The consensus was that "in general" LEDs did not pose much >of a risk. My question is, without testing for luminance (or lasing) can an >approximation be made which correlates to the maximum input current of an >LED and the potential for lasing? I have a unique application where I want >the LEDs as bright as possible but obviously want to avoid potential safety >risks. > >Rick Busche. >Evans & Sutherland >Salt Lake City, Utah >[email protected] > > >------------------------------------------- >This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety >Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > >Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ > >To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > [email protected] >with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > >For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Michael Garretson: [email protected] > Dave Heald [email protected] > >For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: [email protected] > Jim Bacher: [email protected] > >All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: > http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall," > ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall,"
