I've developed several designs of lightsource and controllers as an 'antidote' to the cheap & nasty LED car lighting products flooding in form the far east. This niche market was formerly served by boring old neon, but has been recently transformed by the emergence of LED products. But all the offerings so far have been distinclty lo-tech and lo-quality.
For example, they get all excited about having 7 different colors (straight binary RGB mixing) and the controllers all use multi-way cable to direct-drive the LEDs via current limiting resistors. Given the variations & spikes commonly found on automotive battery supplies there are going to be plenty of burnt-out LEDs before long.
I realized early on that a digital network would be a great starting point and put active microprocessor control in each lightsource. As a consequence all ICELED sources can generate a couple of million different colors and the LEDs are all current regualted with temperature compensation.
Now what I'm interested from you guys is to know how you feel about the prices - e.g. a 12 LED Superflux lightsource retails at around $100. (see
http://www.oznium.com/) It has a stand-alone program that starts from power-up by lighting in white, then after a while it starts a colour change routine that smoothly scrolls through the spectrum. It can also be frozen on any particular color by briefly interrupting the power and restarted by doing the same again. This provides a simple color selection method without any additional controls. As well as the 12V & ground wire there is also a data wire which allows it to be remotely controlled by any ICELED controller.
So how does it sound?
How do these prices sound to you guys?
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