I'm looking for a high brightness red LED. There are tons of them out there, however most of the high brightness stuff is in surface mount packages. I need a through hole package because I want the LED to shine at a right angle to the board. My plan was to solder the LED in the board upright and just bend the leads over so it's at a right angle to the board. The problem is I can only find one through hole high brightness red LED and it seems a bit large. Here is the one I found:
Digi-Key - 67-2061-ND (Lumex Opto/Components Inc - SSL-LX100T123SIC)
If you notice the thing is 10mm in diameter. I need something more like 5mm in diameter as I'm trying to save weight and space. I would go with one of the small surface mount units if they could somehow be mounted at right angles to the board.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Digi-Key - 67-2061-ND (Lumex Opto/Components Inc - SSL-LX100T123SIC)
If you notice the thing is 10mm in diameter. I need something more like 5mm in diameter as I'm trying to save weight and space. I would go with one of the small surface mount units if they could somehow be mounted at right angles to the board.
Anyone have any suggestions?