That's good research.

LEDs will always need a heatsink as they suffer from Thermal runaway, ie as it gets hot, it takes more current and as it takes more current, it'll get hotter.  Basically, the LED is such a tiny point producing heat that if the heat is not taken away quickly, that point on the surface of the LED will get hotter and hotter until it blows up. Just as a 1watt laser will pop a balloon but a 1watt light will never do the same. All the energy focused on a tiny point.

Good heat sinking will prolong the life of the LED.

Well, all I can say that this is certainly the only "1Manusia" site where we all give our true honest views to share with all races, religions or creeks without hesitation nor greed........Whereas "1Malaysia" is only in words only till now.

Just a few weeks ago, many shop owners here got notice from MPK to put 1Malaysia Logo on their sigh board or face a fine. What's a shame! I went to the MPK and told the guys selling the stickers off by telling him that 1Malaysia should be from the heart and not force to and how shameful to force the raayat to pay for the stickers to show that they are for "1Malaysia".

1M should be from the heart but never dream to be forced into buying and placing tiny 1M stickers(Rm4) on the sign board or else face a fine. I gladly will place a sq meter "1Malaysia" display if allowed to  but will not if being threaten a fine. Being a Pro BM all my life, I am thinking of voting for  opposition this coming election....sorry for alittle of politic out of anger here to lower my blood pressure...

By the way, what has happened to all those talkings on clearing the air for the export of EBN to China and hopefully, the VDept does not just allow a few guys the rights to export EBN. Then, we will soon see that same like "100% BIRDNESTS, PRODUCT OF SINGAPORE" like our rambutan and other fruits.

Hi Gerald, I was at Asajaya that day nearly cannot go home... My uncle bird house flooded and backup battery immersed in water, I saw the water level reach to his chest when he walk into his bird house...

Be careful, even 12v car batteries can kill when in a flooded area.

Flood water will cause the batt to discharge after a short while but if there is still charge and you touch one terminal with your body whilst the other is flooded you can get a high current discharge through your body. If you happen to touch both terminals, good luck. Dry human skin is a fair insulator but wet skin not so.

Where is Asajaya?

Fact is that at present, Chinese do not have faith in Malaysian Nests due to the scandal and at present, the Indo nests seem to be more in demand. Malaysia do not have the Red Nests but "Lembu punya susu, Sapi dapat nama nya" as this case is the BAD image......maybe, due to some BAD Malaysians cooperating with our neighbouring country to pass the contaiminated nests as Malaysian nests and so we all need to suffer for many more months to come.

Hopefully, we shall regain our former glory in a few years time and hope that in 2012, people will forget the bad past that happened like the milk scandal and start taking our nests like before.

We all shall learn thru this lesson and learn well so that in future, we shall not allow our greed to take the better of us....

MOH just came in recently after the RED nests affair but an exporter wanted only the code so that he can export the nests to China trouble free. If I am not wrong, DVS certification is only required for anywhere in the world and never require MOH involvement except for this particular case when the Health Department came into the scene.

Whether it is good or bad is up to the future to see but I rather have one department handling the matter and make the exporters responsible for the quality of nests exported...

It's history that we all knew how the RED nests or Bleaching is done but no one even bother then. Just set the reasonable standard and the people involved ( The Exporters) to ensure that no dirty tricks when exporting and what happen later is the fault of the importers. Do you think that the Chinese merchants in China are honest and clean?? NO! many are playing very dirty and will cheat if given a chance to do so. This, I have experienced many times over the years of dealing with Chinese of China and was cheated a few times.

For every1 who is in the industry, we basically understand whats going on and how simple the solution is.
Sifu WW posts basically sums up all the important points.
If the government wants to help sincerely, the issue would have been solved by now.

Wow gerald, that's some major moisture for shroom to boom like that!!
Anyways, ppl in East Malaysia nesting plank so thick, I guess you guys have lots of timber lying around.
You need to resize your picture though it is messing up the whole page.