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Subject: Re: Blue LEDs?

From: Mike Estee <mikest@...>
Date: 2004-11-16

>> Also, It's not an electrical reason, but looking at UV and bright blue
>> LEDs is not that great for your eyeballs. You'll also probably drop
>> the
>> resale value of your modules, or maybe not. It's also impossible to
>> find the MOTM style led in blue, aqua, or UV.
>
> Yeah, look out for the bright LEDs. The red ones in my Waldorf Micro-Q
> are
> ∗NASTY∗. I angled my rack just to avoid looking at them. Anything with
> a
> diffused lense should be OK, but the clear ones are eye killers.

Yeah, I remember those! For an extremely misguided example of LED
torture check out the new Access Virus "Polar".
http://www.access-music.de/

Ugh.

--mikes