MOTM

>Lastly - and I hope not to start this thread up again but: awhile
>back the heated 'blue led' debate seems to rest upon the fact that
>they're too bright and tend to blind you!  This is not good.  While I
>cannot find a blue LED that does NOT have a clear lense - I've found
>that dipping it in acetone or some such evil chemical (I thingk I
>used MEK), can give you a frosted effect which tones down the
>piercing nature of these little buggers.  and then just series
>resistance the thing to tone down the brightness if need be - for
>whatever its worth...

I seem to remember someone telling me that a company was going to 
make lower intensity blue leds. Don't know if there have been any 
developed.

Simon
Canberra
AUSTRALIA