TI-H: Re: Backlighting
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>Jason C. Wenger wrote:
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>>>Digi-Key sells a four chip LED from Cree. It has two blue chips, one
>>>red and one green. If you put the correct amount of current into the
>>>LED, it can create any color light, including white. They are rather
>>[SNIP]
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>> No. Remember the experiments in junior high science class when you
use a
>> prism to break up a white light into a spectrum? This proves that
white
>> light is made up of all colors mixed together. LEDs can only emit one
>> frequency at a time.
>>
>True, what you are saying is absolutely correct HOWEVER, there ARE white
>LEDs (only developed within the last year I believe) and they are a
>combination of multiple LEDs. I still think that Night Vision RED would
>be the best color for the light.
My aplogies. I was unaware of this product. (I should've known, there's
always an exception) It must be horribly expensive though, right? Where
is it available from?
BTW, I agree about NV Red being better. I wonder if it'd be possible for
Timex to make a red Indiglo? Ideas? Someone mentioned knowing someone
who used to work for Timex...
Jason "Thursday" Wenger
jwenger@juno.com
Illegitimi no carborundum
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