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The Blues for LEDs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-thats-your-biggest-problem-you're-doing-allright dept.

Corey Burger writes "Seems somebody rolled out of bed on the wrong side today. The Globe and Mail's Ian Johnson delivers up a rant about the ubiquity of the new blue LEDs."

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  1. Re:Why by Darkman,+Walkin+Dude · · Score: 0, Troll

    How the hell did this get an interesting modifier? Its Funny! Wokketey wok! *envisions lackwit mods going off buying drill bits of similar diameter to their eyes*

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  2. Nice advertisement by SuperBanana · · Score: 1, Troll
    recently bought a whole bunch of blue LEDs for $0.45 each from[long-winded advertisement snipped]

    Yeeesh, this has to be the most blatant advertisement i've ever seen posted as a comment.

    Blue LEDs vary anywhere from 23 cents to $2.45 depending upon brightness, lifetime, wavelength, and so on. Quoting a price without any of those specifications is worthless.

    Digikey and any of a number of other electronics suppliers will always beat the guy-who-thought-he-could-live-off-selling-LEDs places, especially if you order more than 10 units, because you get a nice quantity discount. They don't nail you on shipping, either.

    For the same reasons, bragging about how fast you(oops! Them, I mean, sorry!) ship things without specifying methods is pretty silly too. Oh, and Digikey stocked, when I looked...7 sizes and 10 voltages of radials in various combinations. At least that many SMD types, and still more panel-mount types...

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