Not really OT since I'm making LED's for 194 sockets.... Was: [Shotimes] RE: EL Backlighting (sorty of OT now)

[David P]

If you buy green LED's in bulk, they are far from overpriced, and the blue
and whites are not bad, either. It's the online stores, that do have to deal
with people that want ONE green LED and ONE white that mark up their product
40 times (yes, they are charging $2 for a $0.05 product). At this low cost,
the market will support it, and I see no problem charging someone $2 for one
LED if they want me to deal with processing their order. It takes time to
process orders, and you can only get so many orders done in an hour. If I
can process 20 orders for one LED each in an hour, I'd only make $19.74 that
hour, and I can make a hell of a lot more money selling other commodities or
greater quantity. (At my price of $1.50 for an 8000mcd white Yoldal LED, no
tax sale, overhead costs deducted).


David P

95MTX



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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Andretta" <passport@optonline.net>
To: <TechSHO@topica.com>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 19:27
Subject: [Shotimes] RE: EL Backlighting (sorty of OT now)


> Same thing with blue, green and white high intensity LED's.  There should
be
> no reason why they charge what they do for these.  After all the
technology
> has been out for a while and with green LED's being in almost every
traffic
> light now the volume should make up for higher manf. costs.  BTW:  Hewlett
> Packard is a big LED supplier.
>
>
> Chris A
> 99 SF
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: David [mailto:jpotter8@bellsouth.net]
>   Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 4:38 PM
>   To: shotimes@autox.team.net; TechSHO@topica.com
>   Subject: EL Backlighting
>
>
>   As some of you remember, I am working on an EL kit for use with the oem
> dash gauge templates. I've been thoroughly waterlogged by my inability to
> locate white EL at a reasonable price, as well as a cost-effective
inverter.
> It seems there are plenty of both to be had in the UK, but once it gets to
> the US, the price skyrockets for no apparent reason (considering the
volume
> that the US consumes each year). I may be able to provide some later this
> summer with a blue color, because the green/blue EL is fairly cheap, but
> I've still got to work out some controller issues.
>
>   Which brings me to the reason for this post. While undergoing extensive
> testing of less-than adequate components, I decided that I really want a
> different daytime color for the gauges. Specifically, I've always liked
the
> midnight-blue that Speedhut offers. The reason I didn't originally
purchase
> a Speedhut product is because the dark blue dial was only listed as a
> background-glows option, while I wanted a lit font. Since their product is
> one of the higher-quality available at a reasonable cost, I contacted them
> in regards to creating a custom dial. The resulting conversation revealed
> that the colors they list are not set in stone, and the only restrictions
> are that the fonts must have good contrast against the background in both
> day and night viewing. IOW, they will mix and match colors, at no
additional
> cost, as long as you can see the fonts. Apparently they did not take the
> time to list every possible combination, but rather the most common color
> combinations.
>
>   FYI.
>
>
>   David P
>
>   95MTX
>
>
>
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