[sdiy] violet leds?

[Eric Brombaugh]

I bought a bunch of near-UV LEDS (402 nm) from Meredith Instruments:

http://www.mi-lasers.com/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?preadd=action&key=P-UVLED 
-10&reference=/cgi-bin/ 
shopper.cgi%3Fsearch%3Daction%26keywords%3Dviolet%26searchstart%3D0%26te 
mplate%3DTemplates/SearchResult.html

These are a great deep-purple color that will make fluorescent items  
light up. I'm not sure that they're 3mm dia. though - I've never seen  
short-wavelength LEDs that small.

Eric

On Mar 29, 2006, at 4:58 AM, wayfar wrote:

> Hey hows it goin,
>
> Does anyone know of a good place to find violet LEDs (400nm or so),  
> Digikey and Mouser have a few LEDs marked blue that get close to the  
> wavelength, but it would be nice to get find some true violet ones, in  
> 3mm.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> x|k
> chris k
>