Steve wrote:

The efficiency is still only around 20 Lumens/Watt, compared to fluoros
at 95 lumens/watt. We use the Luxeon Star LEDS at work on some projects
- incredibly, painfully bright beams, but as has been said, rather
narrow. An LED drawing 300mA is quite a beastie.

Steve


There are some new EL materials coming up that are between LED and
fluoro efficiency. see www.elam-T.com - but the most lucrative potential
market is in replacing LCD display technology, so don't expect to see
flat screen lighting yet awhile.

Right now, fluoro is the best there is for GP lighting, according to the
research director there...however their 'phosphors' might make it into
those yet, for a tad more efficiency and better color balance.