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Article #19880Re: speaking of LEDs
From: Mike Butts
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1988 16:59
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1988 16:59
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From article <7200014@silver>, by commgrp@silver.bacs.indiana.edu:
>
> I read about "high-brightness" LEDs from Japan in Modern Electronics
> magazine a couple of years ago. The author said that clusters of them
> would eventually replace incandescent bulbs for car tail-lights. It
> was the April issue, so I didn't believe it! :^)
>
Next time you're behind a recent Nissan 300ZX sports coupe in traffic, take
a good look at the center stop light. It's very wide and thin, and
has the LED shade of red, slightly different than the usual automotive
taillight red. I'm fairly sure it's an array of LEDs. Perhaps a source of
high-brightness LEDs is the parts dept. of your Nissan dealer!
(I'm fairly sure it's the 300ZX, in any case it's their big "Japanese T-Bird"
model.)
--
Mike Butts, Research Engineer KC7IT 503-626-1302
Mentor Graphics Corp., 8500 SW Creekside Place, Beaverton OR 97005
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