Flashing Tri Light led

dangee · Nov 21, 2002

found this neat flashing 3 color led in one of the magazines i order my electronic supplies from. although i have no idea what i'll use it for. just to look at and say ooooo.
the pics were taken with a digital in macro mode. although i had to use a 20x add on lens to get the real tight shot.

Slick · Nov 22, 2002

I got some like that from Fry's for $3.99 a pop. They have a powerful enough pair of magnets on the back that separate that it can be worn like an earing. I had to go back and get more after the little lady found this out.

The card on mine says it's supposed to be able to go 12 hours continuous, which doesn't sound bad for something in a package the size of a button.

vcal · Nov 22, 2002

www.extremeglow.com sells those in some unbelievable color combinations.
-Look at their "body light" section for 20 or so different 2 color/3 color ones.(including purple).

-They are going for $1.00-1.20 each, including the batteries.

Hemingray · Nov 22, 2002

I have some of these from All Electronics, trying to figure out a truly unique use for them. Though of ear studs, tie tacs, etc, but those already have been done...

Speaking of "extreme glow" how about an "extreme GO" as in Toliets (as Craig would spell). Go with the glow...

http://www.extremeglow.com/toilet_seat.htm

As they say in the plumbing trade, a flush is better than a full house...

/ed brown in NH

Joshua · Nov 22, 2002

I have some just like that, but mine comes in a standard 5mm epoxy package. I ordered mine through ETG. There are 4 versions of this light floating around.
(1.) Psycho Lights CANADA: These Photon 2 look alikes come from Canada and used to show up on Ebay with there Tri-LED light. The flashing red.blue,green LED was meant to replace the Photon Rav'n without having to incorperate surface mount IC chips and circuts. The RGB that Psycho Lights sells runs at 4.5 volts like most other blue white and blue/green LEDs.
(2.) The one listed in this thread runs at lower voltages than the one listed by Psycho lights. These are most likely made in China and were the first of these versions to show up on the LED marketplace. It can let out all it's magic smoke if exposed near the voltage needed to run Psycho Lights RGB LED.
(3.) ETG sells a 5mm version of this LED but with a new version of the flashing seq. Supply voltage to this LED as you would with any Blue or white LED.
(4.) Photon Xlight Rainbow: Photon threat legal action against Psycho Lights because they had listed some products on Ebay. To this day they do not sell to the US. But Photon did this at the time to keep people from buying this LED instead of the Photon Rav'n. Only months later they incorperated this LED into there own product line.

All of these RGB flashing LEDs have different flashing/fading steps.

I use them in high power interface boxs as power indicators. They really are nice LEDs. All made different but all give the desired effect.

James S · Nov 22, 2002

I ordered a couple of the regular 5mm sized ones from http://www.bgmicro.com/lmad.htm and they are fun to play with, but I haven't done anything really exciting with them yet. $3.49 each. In addition to flashing they do a slow fade in and out sequence for some random looking colors. Very nice, but not as frenetic as some others that I've seen that flash constantly. But it's a little bit nicer show.