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For the synth / sequencer builders...
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Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:53 pmby Thirteen
I just bought 1000 Japanese made orange 3mm LED's from an ex manufacturer on Ebay, if anyone want's any let me know and I will post you some.
This announcement brought to you by the society for the eradication of blue LED's on musical instruments.
Posted:
Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:50 pmby Futureman
God I hate Blue LED's.... ughhhhhhhh....
Has anyone who actually designed something with blue LED's actually used it in a dark / dim enviroment? Nothing like 40 blue lasers pointing at your retinas. Not to mention the fact that they look sooooooo late 90's.....
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Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:52 pmby chris p
I'm a hack astronomer - there's a reason why all my LEDs are red
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Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:06 pmby TimS
Tell Joe Malone that... his gear has blue backlit LED's in some of his gear!!
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Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:39 pmby heathen
The api 2500 is the worst I've got, downright evil.
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Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:07 pmby Chinagraf
Apparently filling the room with bong smoke can help diffuse the blue light.
Worst I've seen is one of the backup drives in our machine room. It might be a Lacie. With the room lights off that f&*ker is as bright as a stage can.
Posted:
Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:02 pmby heathen
Chinagraf wrote:Apparently filling the room with bong smoke can help diffuse the blue light.
Worst I've seen is one of the backup drives in our machine room. It might be a Lacie. With the room lights off that f&*ker is as bright as a stage can.
Nah I've tried that, it does'nt work, I'll keep trying though. :)
Posted:
Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:13 amby Martin
yeah like my blue LED VU meters experiment, man did that not work..
*Binned*
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Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:12 amby heathen
Martin wrote:yeah like my blue LED VU meters experiment, man did that not work..
*Binned*
Hehehe. Sounds good in theory though.
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Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:03 amby Chinagraf
Hey Marty I remember those. They were in that plastic lunchbox to keeo them extra fresh. Have you seen the main buss VU's on my console? It's quad so I did the front bus VU's with blue leds and the rear buss with red leds. The red look better.
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Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:03 amby TimS
pics Andy, pics.... :)
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Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:55 pmby Chinagraf
Can't attch pics here can we? Got some crappy pics on FB :
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo ... =781181741
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo ... =781181741
The red looks better than the blue. What I didn't do to these was sand the domes of the leds to make the light disperse more. The leds were fitted inside the original VU's casings replaceing the solder in festoon lamps they had.
You can actually get close to a globe colour if you use yellowish orangey leds and drop the voltage enough to get a glow of sorts.
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Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:09 pmby JulienG
Chinagraf wrote:...
Worst I've seen is one of the backup drives in our machine room. It might be a Lacie. With the room lights off that f&*ker is as bright as a stage can.
We started turning off the lights to our server room at work, it turns out that ~ a thousand LED's is enough to work by a lot of the time.
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Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:04 pmby TimS
you have to have a log-in for FB!! ;-z