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From: mbutts@mntgfx.mentor.com (Mike Butts)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: speaking of LEDs
Message-ID: <1988Oct6.095916.975@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Date: 6 Oct 88 16:59:04 GMT
References: <7200014@silver>
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon
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From article <7200014@silver>, by commgrp@silver.bacs.indiana.edu:
> 
> I read about "high-brightness" LEDs from Japan in Modern Electronics 
> magazine a couple of years ago.  The author said that clusters of them 
> would eventually replace incandescent bulbs for car tail-lights.  It 
> was the April issue, so I didn't believe it!  :^)
> 
Next time you're behind a recent Nissan 300ZX sports coupe in traffic, take
a good look at the center stop light.  It's very wide and thin, and
has the LED shade of red, slightly different than the usual automotive 
taillight red.  I'm fairly sure it's an array of LEDs.  Perhaps a source of 
high-brightness LEDs is the parts dept. of your Nissan dealer!
(I'm fairly sure it's the 300ZX, in any case it's their big "Japanese T-Bird"
model.)

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