Filing an LED flat on the end.

bizzybody

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A while back I had a pair of little blue LED disposable clip on lights that were bright enough to see with but had a very narrow hot spot with a wide dark ring and a fairly decent illumination outside the ring.

So, just for a lark, I took a file and flattened off the dome completely on one. It then produced a broad but nearly completely even field of light.

I'm thinking of doing that to the center LED in the 9 white LED RV modules I'm going to make.

Think it'd help make for a better light to see by? the whole thing will be inside one of those typical 5" square 12V overhead mounted fixtures with a frosted/bumpy diffuser lens.
 

greenLED

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Think it'd help make for a better light to see by?
That really depends on what you want your light to do for you. What will "better" mean in your application?

Normally once you have a cluster of LED's, the beam is broad anyway; do you want to make it broader?
 
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