LED's for running lights?
 

"lupi" wrote in message
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Any info on this? The 12v single water clear led's are $1.67 and put
out 11000 or 3300 mcd, whatever that is, some measure of how bright
they are. The viewing angle is 30 or 60 degrees. The attraction is
that current draw is almost nothing. I measured .023 amps for a single
lamp.
Also, I want to make an anchor light with 6 of the 60 degree lamps
flashing so fast they look like they are all on- kind of like the
moving pictures principle. A 555 timer chip, a capacitor, a current
limiting resistor? In theory this would still only drawn the current
of one lamp. Is any of this practical? Thanks again, mayteaze.

Over the last few years there has been a breakthrough in LEDs, both in light
output and colors. You are going to see them used for everything, and quite
soon. I have a book reading light and it is great. They are very bright, use
very little power and last forever.

Running lights would be great.

Bill