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Larry Jaques
 
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Default OT, Sorta-LED flashlights...

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 04:04:51 GMT, Ted Edwards
brought forth from the murky depths:

Gary Coffman wrote:

I'd like to check those out. If you have a URL handy, it would be
appreciated otherwise, I'll search.


http://www.maxim-ic.com/


Thanks Gary. Looks like some very interesting parts.


http://www.maxim-ic.com/appnotes.cfm...ber/1037/ln/en
A key page to their LED info.

http://www.zetex.com/3.0/pdf/ZXSC300.pdf
Here is another 95% efficient off-brand I hadn't heard
of. They're half the price of the others but have a 4
to 5x quiescent drain. Switch off Vcc to the chip, eh?

I ordered some of the LEDs from www.whitelightled.com
and he even sent some resistors and schematics with 'em.
Cool.


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