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Product Details
✓Wide-angle straw hat LED for even illumination - 5 Orange straw hat wide-angle LEDs with 120-140 degree viewing angle that distribute light over a wide area — suitable for sign backlighting, low-profile installations, and even-illumination string lights
✓Wide-angle amber output - Emits 600-610nm amber/orange light at 9,000-10,000 mcd luminous intensity through a clear straw-hat lens with a 120-150 degree viewing angle. Operates at 1.9-2.1V forward voltage and 20mA drive current for uniform wide-area illumination.
✓Straw-hat radial through-hole package - 5mm straw-hat radial body with two long leads on standard 2.54mm pitch for breadboard, perfboard, or PCB through-hole mounting. Flattened lens profile distributes light across a 120-150 degree cone rather than a narrow forward beam, ideal for diffused panel and backlight use.
✓Polarity and resistor reference - Through-hole LEDs are polarity-sensitive: longer lead is anode (+), shorter lead is cathode (−). For 20mA drive current with a 1.8-2.2V LED, use a series resistor of 150Ω 1/4W on 5V, 360Ω 1/4W on 9V, 510Ω 1/4W on 12V, or 680Ω 1/2W on 15V.
✓Sign and wide-beam applications - Amber 600-610nm output with a 120-150 degree spread suits sign backlighting, channel-letter fill, illuminated display panels, wide-beam caution and indicator markers, arcade and pinball backlights, and decorative string-light builds where even diffusion across a wide area is preferred over a narrow spot beam.