TI-H: Re: LZ: Backlighting

Subject: TI-H: Re: LZ: Backlighting
From: zarquon@gaianet.net <zarquon@gaianet.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:20:34 -0500
In-Reply-To: <Re: LZ: Backlighting>

TI>>Digi-Key sells a four chip LED from Cree. It has two blue chips, one
TI>>red and one green. If you put the correct amount of current into the
TI>>LED, it can create any color light, including white. They are rather


TI>No.  Remember the experiments in junior high science class when you use a
TI>prism to break up a white light into a spectrum?  This proves that white
TI>light is made up of all colors mixed together.  LEDs can only emit one
TI>frequency at a time.


       Thatis why there are three different color LEDs.. mix them
together, and you get white (or close to it).  Same principal as a pixel
ona color TV or monitor.


Zarquon
Sysop of Imperial Realm (410) 799-8616
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