Dead End FX Calypso LED advice sought.

[Zennmaster]

Hi all -

I'm getting ready to tackle a Dead End FX Calypso (Spaceman Explorer phaser clone), and I see that the build docs specify a 10mm water clear green LED for the LFO which isn't available from the usual sources, and only in quantities of 1000 from the un-usual sources.

Here's a link to the data sheet:

https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/423/VAOL-10GDE4-1064783.pdf

Tayda has an "ultra-bright", which appears to be way brighter than the speced part, 14,000 mcd vs 345-485 mcd, as well as having a lower peak wavelength, 525 nm vs 570.

For the LED/LFO gurus here, how critical are the brightness and exact color for optical LFO operation?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

Paging @Diynot — what did you use when you built yours?

 

[Diynot]

The calypso build doc didn’t go into that much detail concerning the specs of the LED so I used the ones from Tayda with very good results. You will adjust the overall brightness of the LED with the trim1 on the lower board

 

[Zennmaster]

The calypso build doc didn’t go into that much detail concerning the specs of the LED so I used the ones from Tayda with very good results. You will adjust the overall brightness of the LED with the trim1 on the lower board

Awesome, that is the exact information I was looking for. Thank you!

 

[Diynot]

The biggest gotcha I had with this board was the headers. You can check my build report for a run down of my header woes

 

[Zennmaster]

I will be checking out that report immediately. Thanks again!