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Is 6000 mcd to bright for a blue led cube?
Im making my own Arduino based led cube, and was wondering if 6000 mcd is to bright for this project.
Im making my own Arduino based led cube, and was wondering if 6000 mcd is to bright for this project.
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11 years ago
As it turns out, 8cd LEDs are very hard to find (well, at least for me)...however, there are a lot of 10cd ones available...would these happen to be too bright?
11 years ago
What do you mean by "too bright" - hurt your eyes or too much power requirement?
L
Answer 11 years ago
By "too bright" I mean that being so bright that you can't distinguish individual LEDs once I start using the cube. Also, not hurting my eyes would be nice
Answer 11 years ago
Ah right. Well there's also the light in the room to consider. If this is for use in a dark place you need less than somewhere brightly lit.
General opinion seems to be 6cd isn't too bright.
L
11 years ago
It depends on the beam-angle of the LEDs too.
11 years ago
6000mcd is actually sorta dim I'd go to a 7000-8000mcd personally.
11 years ago
6cd isn't very bright. It should be fine :)