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Re: Blue LEDs?

2004-11-16 by Mike Estee

>> 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

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