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Old March 22nd 11, 06:44 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave,sci.electronics.basics
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Default Lucas electronics

On Mar 22, 1:01*pm, m II wrote:
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On 11-03-22 08:56 AM, wrote:

http://www.devilfinder.com/find.php?...+put+a+1K....* *


Note the 'British Made' frame around the defective LEDs. That means it's
made by LUCAS electronics, famous for making things that are the
antithesis of Quality.

http://wordpress.mrreid.org/wp-conte...split-resistor...

For those of you blessed with Microsoft's 'ruin the URL' featu

http://tinyurl.com/5t8zylq

This LED is probably split because they wanted to double Corporate
profits without actually doubling production. The engineering team
thought the 'single lead' LED would be a real sales success, due to
greatly reduced installation costs.

mike

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Whoever 'split' that misfortunate LED most likely applied AC mains
voltage to the leads . Seen it before . Even WITH a 1K resistor .