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From: pete@tcom.stc.co.uk (Peter Kendell)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Re: In defense of solid-state devices (Really Blue LEDs)
Message-ID: <407@stc-f.tcom.stc.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 06:54:52 EST
Article-I.D.: stc-f.407
Posted: Thu Oct 29 06:54:52 1987
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in article <935@cpocd2.UUCP>, howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) says:
> 
> Why not blue?  Blue-light LEDs (made with, I believe, silicon carbide) are
> readily available, just a little expensive.  For this application, cost is
> clearly not a major factor.
> 
> Now if HP would just release a blue version of their 101-LED bar graph
> display (currently available in red and green) ...

	The only application I have ever seen for blue LEDs is the
	full-beam indicator in the instrument cluster of a VW Polo
	(and presumably other models too). 

	Red, green and blue... Why have no manufacturers that I've
	heard of tried to make a large-scale full-colour TV display
	with these beasts? 
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