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tetsujin wrote: | MrSquid2U wrote: | I grabbed some of that hoping to figure out how to extract the lil LEDs from the tape. Try as I might that never happened with any success though. |
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Seems kind of silly... LEDs are cheap enough that I don't know why anybody would buy a string of 'em just to extract the individual LEDs... |
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It would seem silly if you never saw just how small these are. They're even smaller than micro surface mount LEDs which is why they didn't cooperate being extracted from the plastic they were embedded in. Now if you're satisfied with the "standard range" of LEDs you'll never need to worry about exploring an option like these. But then it seems kind of silly to me that a modeler wouldn't be curious to find the smallest light sources possible for projects. |
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How small are we talking, here? I mean, I work regularly with 0603's, and the only reason I haven't worked more with 0402's is because I have a considerable stash of 0603s and most projects don't require anything smaller... (Though there were a couple installations where 0603's were too big, so I ran fiber instead...)
I am with you in the quest to get smaller LEDs - I didn't know that's what we were dealing with here. I thought it would probably be something like a larger SMD size in there.