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From: cdl@mplvax.nosc.MIL (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: speaking of LEDs
Message-ID: <781@mplvax.nosc.MIL>
Date: 3 Oct 88 23:56:21 GMT
References: <491@ole.UUCP> <7200014@silver> <779@mplvax.nosc.MIL> <1988Oct2.053515.18004@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: cdl@mplvax.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein)
Organization: U.C. San Diego, Marine Physical Laboratory
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In article <1988Oct2.053515.18004@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <779@mplvax.nosc.MIL> cdl@mplvax.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein) writes:
|>>Some cave-explorer friends are experimenting with the new LEDs for 
|>>emergency light sources:

>In any power-critical application, one would probably want to use red,
>not green.

One wonders about the tradeoff with the human eye's greater efficiency
in the green on the receiving end.


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	carl lowenstein		marine physical lab	u.c. san diego
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