Thread: LED Pin Spots

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Nice tutorial! Might have to consider switching over to these.

Thanks, Ms Meeples. Love your lips.

I bought my resin here: http://www.reynoldsam.com/

But the originating source is SmoothOn, here: http://www.smooth-on.com/

If, like me, SmoothOn is really distant from you, shipping will kill ya. On SmoothOn's website they list distributors, LOOK THERE, you can save yourself a lot on shipping charges, might even be able to pick it up locally. For those living near me, Reynolds Advanced Materials is near the Burbank Airport. Others, start with SmoothOn and find your local distributor.

Remember, I did fill the inside of the tubes at least to the hole for the wire. I wanted to seal the electornics from the environment, and I wanted to prevent the wire from chafing.

Mike, that was a great tutorial! THanks so much for posting.

Nice post Mike. It is amazing how bright 10mm LED's are. Did you get any other colors than blue?

Lorod, thanks, and welcome.

Nepboard, yep they are really bright, but I think it has a lot to do with the wattage. I've picked 10mm LEDs up at Radio Shack that just plain sucked. I also built some spots with the Yellow/Amber LEDs from that site. They turned out how I hoped. The yellow isn't too canary, it is somewhat amber. I shined (shone?) the yellow LED on our tomatoes when I hooked it up for a test, made them instantly creepy, aged and dry looking, like a corn field or dead weeds. Nice. I'm glad you posted, I now know you saw this, I owe you for this idea.

I need to get some yellow ones.

Hey MikeBru, where did you get your LED's? I know what you mean about how the Radio Shack ones are horrible! I'm looking for some really bring 10mm LED's and yours look really good! Thanks!

Wow, somebody dug this thread up.lol I got the LEDs here: http://stores.ebay.com/HKJE-Led-Lamp-Center. They are the 10mm 1 Watt high power variety. Hope that helps.

How about these http://www.oznium.com/high-intensity-led-floodlight

Those are great spotlights! I just made several strings of led spots with leds from Radio Shack and discovered the finished product is only suitable for close-up applications (lighting is too weak for lighting a full scene). Your lights are just what I need for my scenes... so I'm going to try and buy some with express shipping so I can build them in time for the big night! Thanks for the info.