12-17-2009, 07:38 AM
(12-16-2009, 09:55 PM)Wombat Wrote: OK,so tempreture won't be an issue then.i can't see as you mentioned anyone running it for large periods of time in one hit.Watch as you get into the super bright leds they generate more heat than the garden variety you get at Radio Shack! Larger leds like the Luxon stars require heat sinks and can generate over 100 degrees of heat them selves.
I'm still looking for something though that may work.
This is the sorta thing i'm thinking about now,this has a 180 degree spread so should light the nozzel quite well i'd think?The sizing is 10mm but that also might nof be to bad?Theres a chart listed with figure's but i don't really know how right all that equates too.
They'd be nice if they were clear bulb's and a screw connection,but if they are not available and these would do the job i'd probably be happy with something like this.
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/s...s_1led.htm
There is an option for making screw type bulbs out of leds that we used to do in college years ago. I'll leave out the hot acid part as it isn't that important to what you need.
Back in the day when white leds were $$$$ our friends at NASA were buying them by the box load and sending them to their sites to put into equipment being developed for the agency. A good idea except they tended to buy from suppliers sockets that didn't have led bulbs to fit them.
In fact there wasn't anyone making an led package for regular light sockets. The result was they would buy the bulbs they needed to fit the socket and break the globe and solder an led matrix to the 2 wires inside the bulb (the acid part was used in making the matrix), then recast the globe with water clear resin.
The same could be done here using the led nightlight bulbs (a group of 3 bright white bulbs in a plastic case. remove the cone shaped globe and electronics, solder the leds back to the base,replace the globe with a round globe. and there you go. C-7 sockets are available at most hardware stores or use an old Christmas light set to supply them.
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