a "tip" for LED installation

[Mark Hammer]

Do the high brightness LEDs use much more current?

The high brightness ones can be *configured* to use less current.  You can either feed them the same current as always and get the much greater brightness from them, OR you can aim for the same brightness as before, which requires less current to accomplish.  I can easily stick a 10-18k resistor in series with one and get as much brightness as I need for indicator purposes.  Compare that against a 1k current-limiting resistor normally found with older low-brightness types.

[spudulike]

On some of my pedals I use a "sort-of-flasher" ... couple of gen purp trannies (usually scavenged) to alter a LEDs brightness from dim to bright. Never fully off, never fully on, small current draw, highly visible, and it dusnt arf make a pedalboard look clever