 The Great Surge, brought to you by Digikey and Adafruit every single week. Adafruit, Digikey show you how to find the things that you are looking for and that is something really important, especially now. Lady, what is this week's Great Surge? Glad you asked. This week we had a request, email came in. Somebody was asking for 1206-sized warm white LEDs. We used them in our LED sequence, that's product number 1758, and they're like, I just want to use these. I don't want to desolder the LEDs because that kind of sucks. Can you just buy it on real? So we don't sell SMT warm white LEDs on a real, but the good news is that Digikey has like thousands of LEDs and we've done some high current output color neutral LEDs, but we didn't do this particular thing, which is like an inexpensive diffused-ish 1206 package warm white. So let's go to the computer. So if you go to Digikey, so white LEDs are kind of interesting. They have two locations they show up in, but let's just search for 1206 LED because that's kind of, whatever, we're looking for the size of the LED. So again, there's white and discreet LEDs, I'll say look in both, but in this case we're going to look in discreet, we want one LED indicator. And there's a couple of different colors available and there's Milacandala, there's a lot of options. The most important thing is we did pick 1206. So let's go for color. So of course, LEDs come in all sorts of colors, but we want white and particularly we want white warm. I will say what is cool, neutral, and warm, it really does depend on what is your definition of. Probably some formal definition, but you have 6,000K, 3,500K, and then 2,000K I think are usually the three kind of boundaries, but of course we want to be more specific about color, binning, and how warm you want the LEDs. You can look at the data sheet and be more specific about that detail. For stuff like the LED sequence, it's not really like binned or formalized, these are very inexpensive LEDs. So just be aware, there's times where you're like, I need it to be exactly this temperature because I'm using it for illuminating something that needs to have a full spectrum or a neutral light. In this case, it's just decorative, it sounds like this person is doing a decorative project. So applying this, there's a lot of options that come up, I will say. However, again, there's white LED, a lot of these, if you want to know what is the color, it doesn't necessarily like, here it's actually described as cool white, and of course in the data sheet you can get more information, but it's not the wavelength, sorry, the color, there's a lot going on here, sorry, so the color here white is generic and doesn't necessarily indicate that it's a warm white type LED because again, usually the Kelvin warmth of an LED is only used for LEDs that are illumination, not indication, so like bright LEDs. That said, as I was looking, this LED popped up because I was like, well, what if I actually do say I only want warm white and I don't want to like, you know, because I wanted to get this person to answer really quickly and I was like, I'm not going to dig through every data sheet. So I clicked warm white and the thing is that only one thing came up, but it's actually like a pretty good option, which is weird, right, usually there's like a little bit of white, you have to sift through things, but this is a warm white LED, it's a little bit, you know, an unusual package, it's not like the flap, but I kind of like it's a little bit of a bar shape, and it's 1206, it's quite bright, but that's okay, it's a 2700 milli-candela, which is a bright, it's actually illumination LED, however that's good, just the choke resistor used just like make it a 10K, it's like you're losing less current, so you know, good for everybody, everything, and it is catalogued as a warm white, and best of all, there's a lot in stock, so you know, it's 100,000 in stock, and the pricing is like pretty cheap, it's like three-four cents a piece if you're buying quantity, even in small quantities it's like five, seven cents, this is like, it has kind of like, this is kind of my pick, there could be other LEDs that are more in that, you know, like, you know, Ziggurat shape, whatever, like the Foxy shape, but if you don't mind having a slightly unusual looking LED, you know, maybe it's miscategorized, but this LED would do the job, you don't need to, if you're using something for indication, you can use an illumination LED, and just like under-drive it, and it will work fine, so I think that this is my great search pick, maybe not what you expected, but there's a lot of them in stock, and that's the most important thing right now. One question was why not apply in stock when you were looking up stuff earlier? I didn't because this happened to be in stock, but yeah, usually, you know, if it wasn't that I only had 50 choices, I would have, but I'll say another thing, the LEDs are not as affected by the silicon shortage, so if it is out of stock, it's somewhat likely to come into stock very quickly, whereas with silicon, if it's out of stock, there's like it's a mystery when you might get it, so I'm a little biased on some things, but I also wanted to have something to recommend for long-term use, and this isn't my project, this is another person's project, so if there wasn't really good LED and it was out of stock but it would be in stock in a month, I'd still send it over and say, hey look, you know, this is unavailable right now, I don't know what your needs are, but if you can wait a couple weeks, this might pop up, so. Okay. There you go. That's a great church.