Another Micro-Nano 0201 LED Line Announced

[C855B]

Mostly for Pete, but I know there are dozens of you out there just itching to try your hand at soldering wires to flea specks: 

  http://www.kingbrightusa.com/category.asp?catalog_name=LED&category_name=KC0201%20Chip%20SMD-0.6X0.3MM

Come to think of it, flea specks are bigger. As are grains of table salt.

Mouser carries the Kingbright line. This announcement was dated 7/7, so it's unknown when they'll be ready for retail ordering. The 0201 LEDs we discussed in the NSE Convention thread are made by SunLED and carried by Digikey.

As Pete pointed-out in the other thread, 0201 LEDs are a scale 1.5" x 3". This makes it possible to use an LED in things like marker and switchstand lanterns for each lens. That is, if your micro-soldering skills are up to the task. 

[nscaler711]

Oh man I'm just thinking of the possibilities in Z and T scales! 

[thomasjmdavis]

How do they package them so you can find them? Held by static to a microscope slide? As someone who commonly looses MT coupler springs, I think this is just out of my league. 

[Ian MacMillan]

Oh wow. So many ideas for these!

[C855B]

How do they package them so you can find them? Held by static to a microscope slide?...

Surface-mount components like this are packaged in a special tape for use in automated equipment. There's no way a person could handle these in a production setting.

[peteski]

Sweet!  Thanks for the info Mike. My stereo-microscope's lenses are clean and ready for use! 

[reinhardtjh]

Surface-mount components like this are packaged in a special tape for use in automated equipment. There's no way a person, except for Peteski, could handle these in a production setting.

Fixed that for you. 

[peteski]

Surface-mount components like this are packaged in a special tape for use in automated equipment. There's no way a person, except for Peteski, could handle these in a production setting.

Fixed that for you. 

LOL, even if I can doesn't mean that I would want to.  But I can jut see bunch of Chinese ladies doing just that and then selling pre-wired 0201 LEDs on eBay. 

[RAILCAT]

Fixed that for you. 


LOL, even if I can doesn't mean that I would want to.  But I can jut see bunch of Chinese ladies doing just that and then selling pre-wired 0201 LEDs on eBay. 

Pre-wired from Germany

http://www.ebay.com/itm/10-Stuck-SMD-LED-0201-rot-gelb-grun-blau-orange-am-Draht-/301992946563?hash=item46502eab83:g:290AAOSw0HVWAnc9

[Missaberoad]

Thank you for that link... I don't think I could even fantasize about soldering those...

To put the size into context 0.3mm is about the thickness of the aluminum of a coke can  Lol

[peteski]

Thank you for that link... I don't think I could even fantasize about soldering those...

To put the size into context 0.3mm is about the thickness of the aluminum of a coke can  Lol

0201 size LED footprint is 0.020" x 0'010" (so 0.3mm is roughly 0.010").  I would think that the Coke can (at least the side wall) would be a bit thinker than that.  But either way, those LEDs are really, really tiny!

[carlso]

RAILCAT,

thanks for the link. Can anybody translate enough to tell if the 10 listed are all white or are there two of each color in the listing? Are they a typical 3v foward and 20ma led?

Carl ( I'm Scotch Irish, mostly Scotch so never learned German )

[glakedylan]

translation:

10 pieces SMD LED 0201 red / yellow / pure green / blue / orange on the wire
Size: 0.65 mm x 0.35 mm Height: 0.2 mm - Leaded with Küpferlackdraht(?) 0.1mm - positive red wire, minus blue wire.


Technical specifications:
RED: 2V / 10mA - 631 nm wavelength 35 mcd brightness
YELLOW: 2V / 10mA -589 nm wavelength 30 mcd brightness
ORANGE: 2V / 10mA - 611 nm wavelength, 100 mcd brightness
BLUE: 3V / 5 mA - 467 nm wavelength, 25 mcd brightness
PURE GREEN: 3V / 5 mA - 527 nm wavelength, 80 mcd brightness

The colors can be mixed

Please operate the LEDs never without matching resistor!
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i would take that to mean you can pick and choose colors you want
sincerely
Gary

[C855B]

There is no indication of how the colors are "managed". When there's a choice like this, there's usually a pop-up that lets you pick. This is too-experienced of a seller to not know that, or know how to do it. So my guess is it's a package of 10, 2 of each color.

Regardless, that's a great price for some really hard work (and lots of "loss") if I were to try this myself.

[peteski]

translation:
 - Leaded with Küpferlackdraht(?) 0.1mm - positive red wire, minus blue wire.

I'm not a German speaker but that sounds like Küpfer (copper?) lack (lacquer or enamel?), so that sure sounds like enameled copper wire (aka. magnet wire in U.S.).  Probably a technical jargon term, which auto-translators have problem dealing with.