What manufacturer and item number are the really small LEDS used in ditch lights, etc.?
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Rich
If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.
Richmond has it all covered and for the non-electronics type with the $1.50 for the unwired and $3.00 for the #36 AWG magnet wire micro surface mount LED types, this is all fine.
For those with good motor control and magnifiers, you can have 100 of the brilliant white micro surface mount LEDS for about $15.00 from Jameco electronics Part # 2033164. Of course you will have to add wires. Herein comes the rub. It is the devil's own work to hook two wires to these types of LEDs without a micro soldering iron and needle tip. Old guys with the shakes, need not apply. But, at 100 for $15.00 you can botch a whole lot of LEDs and still be ahead. Nautrally, you often have room for a tiny PC board within a diesel body where the surface mount LED is easily soldered in place and wires added easily later to the larger solder pads. However, in a steam engine's Pyle National casting you must have the micro wires attached directly.
I do enough of this tiny gauge wire attachment to these surface mount LEDs that I have created a tiny jig to make this work rather easy, quick and virtually 100% successful. I do up lots of 10 or 20 at a time and store what I don't need for the job at hand.
Multiple LED passenger car lighting strips for passenger cars using these are easy to make up with copper clad, isolated hole PC boards, (Radio Shack, Jameco) without the need to attach wires to any of the LEDS. It depends on how creative you are and how much time you are will to spend to save a buck. Look at it as skill building and it won't hurt so much.
I use the surface mount LEDs exclusively and often tint the light with thinned yellow or orange paint to fake the incandescent glow. Takes some experimenting, but you've got LEDs to burn at $15.00.
Richard
If I can't fix it, I can fix it so it can't be fixed
Great thanks.