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From: daveb@eneevax.UUCP (David Bengtson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Re: In defense of solid-state devices
Message-ID: <1075@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 22:16:21 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 22:16:21 1987
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References: <729@alliant.Alliant.COM> <4124@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: daveb@eneevax.umd.edu.UUCP (David Bengtson)
Organization: Elec. Eng. Dept., U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
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Summary: Blue LED's

In article <970@cg-atla.UUCP> mikkel@cg-atla.UUCP (Carl Mikkelsen) writes:
>In article <2002@umd5.umd.edu> cgs@umd5 (Chris Sylvain) writes:
>>
>>Blue glow did you say? Try a Blue LED. ... Don't laugh, it's a REAL product
>>looking for a market. Needs about 3.5V across it. It's made from silicon
>>nitride, and is available in small quantities. They're more a curiousity
>>than anything else, as no one has come upon a good reason for needing a
>>Blue LED. The company that makes them (silicon nitride is really tough

  Ok, I'll do My bit to increase the S/N ratio of this group. My 87 VW
GTI has a Blue LED as the High Beam Indicator. It kinda stands out nicely
from the Red Idiot lights. All of the related VW models probably have the 
same setup, so there is at least one makret for them.