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Steve (Steve)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 9:11 am: | |
I watched a Marathon Provost being built that sold for $2,000,000.This coach led lighting system has 168 diferent colors and bright white that can be controled by a touch pad switch through out the coach. Led's draw very little dc amps with out any heat output and last for 100,000 hours. They used alot of led's. Here are some links for 12v dc led light strips. www.ledtronics.com, www.bocaflasher.com, www.chamaeleon-tech.com
I'll be using 12 volt led light strips through out my coach. Steve |
John MC9
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 9:18 am: | |
Better get a couple and try reading, etc, with only the LED lights
for illumination before you spend too much, Steve. |
Tim Strommen (Tim_strommen)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 12:37 pm: | |
As always, you can get 3-Watt and 1-Watt LEDs called "Luxeon" from the Lumileds brand. Lumileds is a spin-off of Agilent Technologies (HP).
These LEDs output enough light to replace most common bulbs and they offer a warm white LED that looks very close to a Halogen bulb (which most manufacturers don't have). Some of you may want to try getting a few of these to play with - and try putting them where there used to be normal incandescent bulbs. 168 colors is kind of a weak offereing if you're going to go through the trouble to control colors at all. By using a simple PWM (Pulse-Width-Modulation) chip, you can mix Red, Green, and Blue to over 16.7 Million colors. This low power type of electronics is fairly easy to grasp and can usually be done even by hobby electronics people.
Luxeon LEDs are sold directly by Future Electronics in Canada (funny, as Lumileds is based in San Jose California...) the joint websales site is located here. Don't forget to get a heatsink...
You can't mess with the original high-power LED!
Cheers!
-Tim |
Stephen Fessenden (Sffess)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 06, 2005 - 2:26 am: | |
If you put 10 or 20 LEDs together, all parallel in position, aimed in the same direction, you get an excellent reading lamp. The individual point patterns then form a fair sized circle together. |
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