LEDs and Fans

XFactor · Post by **XFactor** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 5:53 pm

daguuy made it sound as if all you needed was a resistor on the line in which the LEDs are chained...is this incorrect?

Gamefreak271 · Post by **Gamefreak271** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:16 pm

well i contacted frys near my house and they said they carry 3mm white leds so im going to go check there very soon. if you have a frys nearby try calling them
http://shop2.outpost.com/product/168176 ... IN_RSLT_PG
these are the leds im going to get and I dont think theres no minimum order like digikey
hope that helps!

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:25 pm

is 1000mCd enough?

XFactor · Post by **XFactor** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:36 pm

I was wondering about that too...i suppose if you have too little intensity, the bulbs will be ineffective; however, if you have high intensity bulbs (the ones on ebay were around 18,000 mcd, which is probably overkill), your screen may actually be to bright to see anything.

I heard somewhere that an improvement to the LED mod was to line the backlight case with aluminum foil to disperse light (but the foil has to be flat, or else you get uneven light areas...). I am probably going to try this method once i can actually figure out these LED perameters.

Daguuy helped me before with all of this crap, so i must play my magical seashell of justice and summon him once more: dude, how much mcd is enough? I saw the 18G ones and they seem to be too much. Plus, i think they take more power when you get to higher mcd levels.

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:05 am

i'm back! i use 6 10,000 mcd LEDs and it's great. 4 of those 18,000 mcd ones would probably be even better

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:46 pm

i think someone used LEDS that were too powerful once, and it washed out their picture.

but maybe if you just put a huge resistor on 18,000 ones, you could make it bright enough an save more power or something.