Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!iuvax!silver!commgrp From: commgrp@silver.bacs.indiana.edu Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Super LEDs from RS Message-ID: <7200025@silver> Date: 29 Dec 88 14:50:00 GMT References: <7200022@silver> Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington Lines: 33 Nf-ID: #R:silver:7200022:silver:7200025:000:1147 Nf-From: silver.bacs.indiana.edu!commgrp Dec 29 09:50:00 1988 Further excerpts from e-mail correspondence about super-bright LEDs: To: reid@gold.bacs.indiana.edu From: "John Halleck, Postmaster" Somebody... claimed that HP had high-brightness LED's for only 20 cents or so. I called HP and asked. They deny the rumor... although I was not the first one to ask. The information below comes from their salesman [name deleted]. The only basis in fact of the rumor is that the HLMP4101 is a 1000mcd LED and has been around as long as the rumor. They are $1.10 in quantity of one. Brighter ones are not currently availiable, but they claim that they will have a new line of them in June. The sizes in June will be 2000mcd, 3000mcd, 5000mcd, 8000mcd (!), and (!!!) 12000mcd (!!!!). The prices for the 2000 and 3000 look to be about $2.00 each in quantity one. I talked to six people at HP, and unless the part number is SO obscure that the sales staff (here and in Colorado) has never heard of them, and can't get the number, or ... The fellow did not know what he was talking about. -John Halleck -- Frank W9MKV reid@gold.bacs.indiana.edu