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LED Purchase

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LED Purchase

LED Purchase

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I am looking for some information on LED's.  I need to purchase some for a project and they need to have a very high light emission and also intense.  They are going to be warning light, but a xenon strobe is too intense for the application.  How can I find LED's in a catalog that are going to do this for me.  The catalogs rate everything in mCD (mila-candela).  This is just a rating of the intensity of light at a certain or given angle.  The catalogs do not give light emission parameters.   
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RE: LED Purchase

The LED data sheets at Agilent are pretty comprehensive.

www.agilent.com

RE: LED Purchase

I fail to see why that information is insufficient.  The higher the mcd's, generally, the brighter.

Your problem, it seems to me, is that you don't actually have a detailed specification for how bright an LED you need.  Therefore, it behooves you to get some samples and test them out in your application to determine the requirement empirically.

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