Brightest Non-LS LED?

What is the brightest non-luxeon LED out there? Nichia?
-ERiC

Nichia is getting 6,400 mcd (typical) out of their NPSW500BS, but I seem to recall there were some batches pushing 8,000.

No idea if that's still the reigning king of the T-1 3/4 world...

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6000 mcd at All Electronics..

Nichia has a new 2-watt LED. I haven't read many details about it, but I'm sure someone around here has some info.

i seem to recall something about 9,600mcd?

i'm not very up on non-luxeon led technology...

Not sure whether you're in the UK, but if so, www.maplin.co.uk is a good place to look for LEDs I think, I haven't been to the site in a while, but that's where I get nearly all of my electronic stuff from. (Well, the Aberdeen store anyway)
Most of their LEDs are Kingbright, though they do stock Nichia parts as well.

I wouldn`t bother with Maplins unless you`re desperate. They`ll charge you £3 (almost US$5!) for a basic Nichia green, blue or white LED. They don`t stock the decent (10 degree) whites, only the 50 degree wide-angle ones, and I don`t think the brightness ranks are all that good either.

Having seen all these overseas, online sources for high brightness LEDs, I wouldn`t buy them from any UK distributor again. Not unless I only needed one or two and was in a hurry.

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where can I buy the great yellow nichia 5mm LEDs?
bernhard

The Nichia 6,400mcd NPSW500BS can get 9,200mcd typical if you can get some of the B1S ranked ones. These can be as bright as 11,000mcd pulsed!!! Get them here for a limited time: Super bright LEDs, Nichia 9200 mcd, UV, reflectors

Ab (Aaron) is great and will get your order out promptly! These B1S rank Nichia's are probably the brightest 5mm LEDs out there!

Ive noticed that LEDs are brighter if they're "pulsed" what exactly is that and how do u do it? Does it look like it's flashing, or is it faster than you can see?

MTFD17, The latter of what you said. You use an IC of some kind with a customized circuit and pulse the LED faster than a person can see. Very much like how any standard incand. or fluorescent AC room lighting works.