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This is my blog about creating a startup LED flashlight business. I'm a designer, fabricator, and strategist and I'm passionate about making ideas real. I believe that products are about people, that they should be built to last, deliver real value, and that we need to do a better job than we have in the recent past.

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Ever seen 200 LEDs in the same place?

This is hardly worth a post but I'm scrambling for content :) I'm putting a little "somethin' somethin'" together and I needed 200 LEDs. I hope to have an announcement about that some time soon. In the mean time I had to buy everything I needed to make 200 complete lights.

200 pcs of 4500K (neutral white) Cree MCE LEDs! 
Some people ask why my lights are expensive and this is the largest single cost besides the actual machining. You are looking at $3,000 worth of LEDs. Doesn't look like much right? This is one of 22 components that goes into a complete Alpha. I guess it adds up :)

Posted by Jason at 10:55 PM

1 comment:

  1. deeppockets15April 23, 2012 at 4:29 PM

    wow thats crazy. i was actually looking to purchase one of your lights soon, will this new venture be an upgrade off the current model?

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