They are an inexpensive small 3 x 1.4mm SMT LED with no focusing lens. The ones I got are slightly cool in color 5000K but still have a CRI of 85, the light looks very crisp and clean. They are a low power LED like a 5mm but are fairly efficient. The only down side I have found with them is the packaging material has way to low of a melting point. It makes it difficult to hand solder them as the packaging quickly turns to a melted blob. Best luck has been with using solder paste and making sure the LED is anchored so that it does not attach it’s self to the soldering iron tip like small SMT components like to do.
I mainly got them for adding white back light to things and making replacement automotive interior light bulbs.
Hey TA if you are getting driver components, would you mind sharing your cart? I found the FETs I need and Attiny25’s but I’m having trouble with reverse polarity diodes? I prefer the SOD-323 package because that’s what I’ve put on my drivers.
Which Tiny25’s are you getting. I was having trouble figuring out which ones would work as there are so many model numbers with no data that I could find explaining the difference.
For some reason it is not pulling up my past orders, although pretty sure I just copy/pasted the model number from digikey into arrow and it came up with the diode.
Yeah, I have looked through the list for those as well but they just don’t have them.
My biggest complaint with Arrow is all the limits on the good items to 1000 minium quantity. They then dump those into the same sections as the items you can buy 1 at a time. Annoying to think you found the perfect item only to realize that you need to buy 1000 of them.
Here is my shopping cart at this point, I still need to go through all my driver components and see what I am short on. Think I am going to buy enough to build 25 or so TA drivers to test the waters.
Good catch, well the cheapest option after that is $1.30 each when buying 10 of them. MTN sells them for .95 cents each. So it works out to basically the same price as ordering from MTN and paying shipping, except that you can then add on more stuff from MTN……