I need some info on true purple LED's
I was over at bike week Daytona and noticed more than not bikes had the LED light strips, I want some for several projects but I must have purple,
These bike LEDS in most cases were used to give glow to the engine and wheels,
Most used Red, Blue, Orange, White, and rather bright and crisp but my post is about Purple which I only saw on a couple bikes.
I popped on Ebay and see that "kits" made for cycles and cars are a bit pricey but for a fraction of that price of a kit a person who likes to do it themselves can buy a 500cm roll of LED strip. this is good as I have lots of places to use the strips that I can custom cut to size.
I researched and learned not all strip is the same, 5050 vs 3528 and then LED count per foot or roll.
Many times auctions while it "looks" purple call the color pink/purple or Fuchsia/purple I saw bikes at bike week with what I call pink/fushsia and that is NOT what I want I want "Purple"
I also see some purple has UV tagged into the name but I have a handful of UV purple LEDS they are far paler in color than what I call purple and not bright as far as lighting up anything.
So I think this will be easy I will include a html color code chart to show you guys what I call purple, not so easy, different monitors will show it different.
but here is a try,
What I want is the color they call "pansy" some of the ebay purple led strip look like this color and it's the purple color I saw and liked on bikes in person,
http://samcowholesalesales.com/images/color_chart.gif
My UV purple leds seem to be more like the color they call lilac too pale and not enough light given off.
And the pink I saw I didn't want at all this place calls it magenta.
So here goes my questions how do I know if I will order and get "purple"?
Do I avoid the ones with UV in the title?
Do I only look for the 5050 or will the 3528 work?
I realize for a person to help they will have had to have seen in person all three LED shades I'm talking about,
If you want to take a look on ebay I was searching under "purple led strip" I of course want 600 count....
Many thanks!
Cheers,
Bats.
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I was over at bike week Daytona and noticed more than not bikes had the LED light strips, I want some for several projects but I must have purple,
These bike LEDS in most cases were used to give glow to the engine and wheels,
Most used Red, Blue, Orange, White, and rather bright and crisp but my post is about Purple which I only saw on a couple bikes.
I popped on Ebay and see that "kits" made for cycles and cars are a bit pricey but for a fraction of that price of a kit a person who likes to do it themselves can buy a 500cm roll of LED strip. this is good as I have lots of places to use the strips that I can custom cut to size.
I researched and learned not all strip is the same, 5050 vs 3528 and then LED count per foot or roll.
Many times auctions while it "looks" purple call the color pink/purple or Fuchsia/purple I saw bikes at bike week with what I call pink/fushsia and that is NOT what I want I want "Purple"
I also see some purple has UV tagged into the name but I have a handful of UV purple LEDS they are far paler in color than what I call purple and not bright as far as lighting up anything.
So I think this will be easy I will include a html color code chart to show you guys what I call purple, not so easy, different monitors will show it different.
but here is a try,
What I want is the color they call "pansy" some of the ebay purple led strip look like this color and it's the purple color I saw and liked on bikes in person,
http://samcowholesalesales.com/images/color_chart.gif
My UV purple leds seem to be more like the color they call lilac too pale and not enough light given off.
And the pink I saw I didn't want at all this place calls it magenta.
So here goes my questions how do I know if I will order and get "purple"?
Do I avoid the ones with UV in the title?
Do I only look for the 5050 or will the 3528 work?
I realize for a person to help they will have had to have seen in person all three LED shades I'm talking about,
If you want to take a look on ebay I was searching under "purple led strip" I of course want 600 count....
Many thanks!
Cheers,
Bats.
Image tags removed see Rule #3 Do not Hot Link images. Please host on an image site, Imageshack or similar and repost – Thanks Norm
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