RailRide posted:RJR posted:You could slip copper tubing over the bulb so light only goes straight out.
Being an LED, doesn't most of the light already go straight out in a relatively narrow cone?
---PCJ
No not necessarily. An LED die actually emits light from all 6 sides. It is the lensing that focuses the beam.
I have a project at work that uses LED die for a photodynamic therapy device, an implant that stimulates a pharmaceutical that is injected. The printed circuit board is transparent so light comes out both sides of the board.
Lou N