Who makes the brightest red LED?
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CMG Infinity and Arc AAA
I've found that a red CMG Equipment Infinity and red Arc AAA are both bright, red LEDs. The red Infinity appears to be the brightest.
I've found that a red CMG Equipment Infinity and red Arc AAA are both bright, red LEDs. The red Infinity appears to be the brightest.
shipinretech
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It sounds like you want a bright red keychain light. If you are willing to go up in size, InReTech offers seven different red LED adapters that will beat up and take the lunch money from keychain lights. Most of those are based on Luxeons, but two are not. We have an inexpensive spider LED based adapter for the AA Mini-Mag, but if you can't pack a that much, I'd go with the Photon III or a Photon X-light.
The brightness you will get out of any keychain light will be fairly good for most uses. If you need a lot of light, you will probably have to accept size increases at this time. In five years, keychain lights will carry warning stickers and in a decade they will probably cut through aluminum and not be allowed on aircraft. For right now, the brightest red LED commonly available is the Lumileds 1W Luxeon followed by the Lumileds spider. In the next six months we'll probably start seeing some product from UEC and Golden Dragon that will blow our socks off. Wresting those form factors into a keychain will probably take some doing.
The brightness you will get out of any keychain light will be fairly good for most uses. If you need a lot of light, you will probably have to accept size increases at this time. In five years, keychain lights will carry warning stickers and in a decade they will probably cut through aluminum and not be allowed on aircraft. For right now, the brightest red LED commonly available is the Lumileds 1W Luxeon followed by the Lumileds spider. In the next six months we'll probably start seeing some product from UEC and Golden Dragon that will blow our socks off. Wresting those form factors into a keychain will probably take some doing.
shipinretech
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Lumileds makes a killer red-orange in a spider package. If you can modify to that form factor, you could get a lot of light out. If you want the traditional 5mm package, I would email Craig at http://ledmuseum.home.att.net/in2aa.htm Ok, that would be better at: [email protected]
He has a ton of good insight into the latest publicly available LED info.
He has a ton of good insight into the latest publicly available LED info.
Wim Hertog
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The 8000mcd 30° red LED from superbrightleds.com is the brightest 5mm i've seen...
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