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RE: [xl7] Changing the LED color

2002-06-04 by erik_magrini@Baxter.com

They make very small electronics soldiering iron and wire kits, Radio 
Shack sells them for like $9.  I wish I could do this mod, I think it 
would be cool as hell looking!  The big hold up now is not so much the 
soldiering (I'd tackle it), but the differences in voltages between red 
and blue LED's.

My second thought was to take blue film and lay them over the LED's inside 
the case (Red+Blue=Purple, which would be cool too!).  Sadly, this didn't 
work either as the RED is just too bright, 4 layers of blue gel film did 
nothing to change the shade at all.  Oh well, it was a cool idea none the 
less!

rEalm



How on earth would you solder a surface mount????  What kind of soldering 
gun would you use?

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