Where can I buy bluish white LEDs? Iron Man reactor project

[crewxp]

Where can I buy bluish white LEDs? I'm making an iron man reactor and am looking for about 15 5mm LEDs. I tried looking at radioshack, but they only have one white 5mm LED available, and it is a dull bright white, not a Bluish White like some other popular LEDs out there have.

Does anyone know of a good place to get them? I'm not sure what to search, I'm just searching white 5mm LED and looking at reviews to see if its a white white LED or a white LED with a tiny blue tint.

Thanks!

 

[doctaq]

maybe mix in some blues?

 

[Optical Inferno]

Cool white LEDs look the most "blue" then the other whites. My suggestion would be to look for the highest CCT LED that you can find close to 10,000K if they can be found. Doctaq is right in that you will probably have to mix in some blue LEDs.

Try Digikey, Mouser, Newark,...anyone else?

 

[M@elstrom]

Where can I buy bluish white LEDs?

You could start with RadioShack's online store they're listing some as currently Available then mix'n'match them with white LEDs to "wash out" the blues a little :thumbsup:

Alternatively (and probably cheaper) look on Flea-bay