AllElectronics has has some ~24", 24 white LED white strips available for about $7 of late. I purchased a bunch and stick them under the lips of the shelves in my office/lab and powered them with an old laptop brick I had sitting about. Look great, wickedly cheap, and very effective, especially at night.
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Raj <vu2...@gmail.com> wrote: > As even LED have switchers in them, look for 12V LED spot lamps which run > on AC/DC and give them a try. They have 3 LEDs and I don't think they have > a switcher PS. A 12V transformer PS will work without filter cap IMHO. Low > noise ! > > At 17-09-2012, you wrote: > > >In this green era here in the USA there is a big push toward CFL > lighting. Problem is I can see my CFL lighting on my PN measurements and > other equipment. I am finding it is very noisy so I have started > researching cost effective LED lighting and was amazed at what is > available. On eBay there are 10 to 100 watt raw chips for $2-25.00 but > that is equal to about 5 times the lumen of incandescent lighting. I was > going to try building the heat sinks and supply into my existing bench > fixtures. > >I will post more info soon. > >Thomas Knox > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.