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HI! I'm planning to build an LED RGB panel that's about 15x20 cm (6x8") and powered by a 12 V source. The panel will not be controlled by a source but by a programmed memory chip or controller. The questions are where can I get some schematics, what's the difference between a controller and a memory and how can I get it programmed.

Hi Orlando, I have a board in hand that was populated with a surface mount LED that radiates beautifully in all directions.  It is not the part that is intended in the BOM, though, and no one knows the part number.  The reason I want to track it down is that the pads are placed poorly for the direction we want the light to be launched now...and no one wants to re-lay out the board for a standard side launch ("90 degree") LED.  Footprint is 1208 i.e. a 3 x 2 mm LED.  The mystery LED would be perfect  Please forgive the ascii art:

[]  []  ---->      (pads and required light direction)

We don't need a ton of light, just some coming off parallel to the plane of the PCB and in the line between the pads, not perpendicular to the line between the pads.

Do you know any parts that match this description?  Or the right search term (whidh is not "isotropic LED"?

Thank you in advance,

Andrew