Looking for cheap LEDs?
Especially colored ones? Blue? Orange? Green?
'Tis the season -- Christmas Lights are now for sale and since the LED chains are so energy efficient, they are frequently subsidized so they are incredibly cheap.
Starship Modeler
has the story:
Inexpensive and Abundant LEDs
To buy LEDs? Yup! They come disguised as ‘Christmas Lights’ - the “Forever Bright” line is especially good. And they are the subject of this article.
Why bother? Cost. A string of 75 BLUE LED lights costs $10 on sale - and up where I am there's a $5 rebate per string for "Energy Saver" lights. So that's five bucks for 75 LEDs - or about 7 cents per LED for the expensive BLUE ones. Cheap.
Hat tip to
robot wisdom for the link.
Posted by DaveH at December 3, 2005 11:25 PM