On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:40:27 -0400, "jtaylor"
wrote:

For visibility at night (in the dark, not in well lit places like city
streets) it's not so much BRIGHT that you want but BIG.

Size does count. That's why the molded lens. The bare LED looked
like a pinhole into hell and was difficult to localize. With the
lens, it is instantly visible (as in attention-grabbing) when I come
around a curve in the street 200 yards distant.