Thread: Super Bright LED's Website Find - Good Prices, Good Specs

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So I've been searching and searching to find some good LED's for my ghostly steps (kudos to that op/thread and all who have contributed). I've wanted to only do 1 LED per step but I wanted a wide viewing angle, not just 15-20 degrees, but more like 120 degrees so it would disperse the light better and only require 1 LED. (Less work for me and building it)

Anyways, ebay has decent stuff, but nothing with good angle views, nor allelectronics.com. I forgot about this site up until now, but I've ordered from here before and it's a great site.

Rate this thread, sticky it, do whatever but it should be remembered and will help many. I just ordered my green LED's 120 degrees for my footprints, so we'll see how it works out. Good luck, and enjoy fellow haunters!


http://www.superbrightleds.com/cat/c...ge,5mm,18,167:

i dont know much about LEDs but i didnt want to buy more flud lights for my haunt. they are hard to hide and take up power outlets so i am going to give some batterie ran LEDs a try and at 3$ a pop its worth a try.
https://www.jackstoolshed.com/p-76-s...r-choices.aspx

Way too expensive

http://niftymart.com/clip-on_12pack.aspx

Niftymart has them for .75 apiece in 12-packs.


As for wide-angle LEDs, niktronix has them for .21 apiece...

http://www.niktronixonline.com/5mm_S...dpuregreen.htm

My two cents....

I havent ordered these yet, but know of others that have and say they are very bright. The advantage of these is that are pre-wired with the resistor already inline. Which means that you can connect these to any 12vdc wall wart and no batteries required. Also, this gives you the ability to string multiple LEDs to the one wall wart. Most of these LEDs are all 20mA draw, which means that with a 500mA wall wart, you can run 25 or these (doing the math, 5 LEDs/100mA wall wart capacity). Wiring these with speaker wire is ridiculously easy, and there are ways to use speaker connectors to create a "panel" of these and then powering it with your wall wart.

Again, just my two cents...

EDIT: My apologies...Here's the link for the LEDs I was referring to http://www.niktronixonline.com/category_s/90.htm

Originally Posted by T.Bennett

My two cents....

I havent ordered these yet, but know of others that have and say they are very bright. The advantage of these is that are pre-wired with the resistor already inline. Which means that you can connect these to any 12vdc wall wart and no batteries required. Also, this gives you the ability to string multiple LEDs to the one wall wart. Most of these LEDs are all 20mA draw, which means that with a 500mA wall wart, you can run 25 or these (doing the math, 5 LEDs/100mA wall wart capacity). Wiring these with speaker wire is ridiculously easy, and there are ways to use speaker connectors to create a "panel" of these and then powering it with your wall wart.

Again, just my two cents...

The ones chugger93 and I posted don't have resistors. They're just the bulbs, specially designed to have a wide viewing angle compared to most of the LEDs people have been buying. The ones from Niftymart (or Jack's) are battery powered. Unless you meant to include a link with your posting...

I used this company alot when repairing arcade machines. I think there are cheaper options out there. They are superbright though, but I usually bought the 6-9 Led wedge based products from them so of course they had great ouput. You need a wedge base socket for the wedge based versions and the ouput trumps the clip on versions from Nifty Mart or Group buy clips.

What Xane said.... apples to oranges are being compared here. I simply posted LED's that can be hooked up to a power supply, not battery operated ones. Each has a different purpose in a build.

Originally Posted by Xane

Way too expensive

http://niftymart.com/clip-on_12pack.aspx

Niftymart has them for .75 apiece in 12-packs.


As for wide-angle LEDs, niktronix has them for .21 apiece...

http://www.niktronixonline.com/5mm_S...dpuregreen.htm

O.o.....*bangs head into desk* thank you for the link anyways ill be getting more if i like the way they look

Originally Posted by chugger93

What Xane said.... apples to oranges are being compared here. I simply posted LED's that can be hooked up to a power supply, not battery operated ones. Each has a different purpose in a build.

i am looking to light up my grave yard with the battery op one, do you think this is a good idea?

Originally Posted by coryjwa

i am looking to light up my grave yard with the battery op one, do you think this is a good idea?

It depends on how long you're expecting them to last. I rewired some of mine last year to run off 3 AA batteries instead of the little button cells. That way they had enough juice to work for a long time. A lot of people hooked them up to power adapters, but in my opinion this is more trouble than it's worth. You don't have a voltage or amperage rating on these that you would need to put the proper resistors on, and using the "standard" voltages for super bright LEDs didn't work for me last year, they were overvoltage and dimmed out over a week or so. If you buy just LED bulbs than you know exactly what voltage they're supposed to have. I still plan on using my clip-ons with batteries this year for the areas where it's not convenient to run power wires.

You could try testing it by leaving one on constantly and seeing how long it takes for it to burn out. Since these things are selling like hotcakes (when was the last time you bought hotcakes anyway?), the batteries in them are probably very fresh.