Wal-Mart has a light set called LED teeny Light Set with 30 clear warm white T1 - 3mm LEDs (they also have colored sets too) for $6.98 or about 23 cents each. They run off a covered plastic battery box for 3 C cells.
The LEDs are easily accessible and can be easily cut off the wire strings. They seem pretty bright and should make great headlights.
I found them in their Christmas shop where they have the various larger plaster and plastic Christmas buildings that people put around fireplaces, tables, etc. The Holiday Time branded green box is enclosed in plastic about 4x8x1.
I didn't have time to play with them much and therefore don't know what their optimum current draw is or what resistor to use. But, at 10ma on my LED test box, they are only a tad less bright than my yellow-glo and sunny bright LEDs are at 10ma.
Ken
I too have harvested LEDs from items also. The wife came home with little candles that had sunny white 3mm LEDs covered with a clear silicone candle flame. They were $10 for eight little Tea light candles with the batteries included. After removing the LEDs I am sure that I can find a place for the flame circuit.
Pete
I pray every day I break even, Cause I can really use the money!
I started with nothing and still have most of it left!
Ken,
Great tip, thanks! I just picked up two sets at a Wal-Mart not too far from you, at 25 and 72 in Dundee. Must be other MRR's in the area as they had lots of other colored sets left but only a few of the warm whites. Unless it was you who snatched them all up...
Steve
Hi Steve,
Glad you were able to get a couple. No, I picked mine up in the Huntley store.
locoi1sa .... After removing the LEDs I am sure that I can find a place for the flame circuit. Pete
.... After removing the LEDs I am sure that I can find a place for the flame circuit.
Take one of those micro or nano blue/white LEDs and attach it to the flame circuit board .... makes a great arc welder simulator for a lot less than the commercial ones !
Mark.
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I forgot to mention the pricing thing. I've been buying 3mm warm white LEDs for some time now from this supplier. In packages of 100, they work out to 19.7 cents each.
http://www.besthongkong.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=210
.... but then you miss out on the fun of trying to dis-assemble them out of a pre-made string !