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From: cook@stout.ucar.edu (Forrest Cook)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Super LEDs from RS
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Date: 23 Dec 88 00:53:16 GMT
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In article <7200022@silver> commgrp@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes:
>RS catalog # 276-087 "Super-Bright LED" ($1.69, from Japan) is truly 
>impressive.

A local store (J.B. Saunders) has Hewlett Packard high intensity LEDs for
$0.20 ea, quantity 1.  They are very bright and open up such uses as
high speed communications over light beams.  This is not really a new
application, but one which can be improved upon with the new LEDs.

 ^	Forrest Cook   (The preceding comments were my Opinions)	 ^
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