Possible LED source ?

marc111 · Post by **marc111** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:08 pm

Has anyone bought from the LEDshoppe? Their prices seem to be good and I am considering using them for my E.

http://www.ledshoppe.com/led5mm.htm

Thanks,
Mark

jwrjr · Post by **jwrjr** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:47 pm

I have not bought from them, but as you say, their prices look pretty good. But you may need to buy a large number of leds. This is not necessarily bad. But it must be considered in the decision.

Madman Lighting · Post by **Madman Lighting** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 5:28 pm

Be careful, these folks are in Hong Kong and I've found several very inexpensive Hong Kong LED vendors, all claiming to be the best. My normal LED vendor is in the US and sure, they're more expensive but I've had no trouble with them at all.

-John C.

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:39 am

As you can see none of the LEDs have a regular manufacture's spec sheets.

That means, current useage, voltage requirements, lifetime, and mostly color wavelegnths are all fuzzy. That means in a batch you may get visibly different colors and brightnesses.

Madman Lighting · Post by **Madman Lighting** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:45 pm

You might want to add reliability to the list, these could be factory reject parts that do work, but maybe not for very long.

Always remember, you get what you pay for.

-John C.

fokkerpilot · Post by **fokkerpilot** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:49 pm

Best to shy away from deals to good to be true. I bought from a "bulk" dealer [name withheld ] and had an overall 30% reject rate during bench tests. Just friendly advice.