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Subject: Re: [ModularSynthPanels] Mouser led misery

From: David Griffith <dgriffi@...>
Date: 2007-10-11

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, gino wong wrote:

> I have a big pile of 5mm leds, lenses and mounting components from
> Mouser. Recently nearly everything I have built up have had holes cut
> just a bit bigger and I have ended up using the Lumex part that MOTM
> uses on most of their kits. Does anybody have any workarounds or
> solutions to this problem.
>
> They are just a bit too small, is there a step up bezel or something out
> there ?
>
> I just know Scott is going to make sure all of his future panels will
> be far more led friendly than the 6.3mm too big for anything from
> Mouser panel approach.
>
> When I can get every piece for a module from one place except the led,
> I believe a little something is called for.

Are you mounting the leds bare or using one of those black plastic collar
thingies? If the former, the latter would probably help.

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David Griffith
dgriffi@...