<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by LED_freak:
Anybody have any idea what percent of the electrons coming from the battery are released as photons in an LED, say maybe a Luxeon star? what about a 5mm LED?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Some laboratory stuff has approached 25% quantum efficiency, but to my knowledge, not much higher than that. I'm not sure of how current production LEDs do.