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Would you rather use LED with 30° or 140° viewing angle for Persistence of Vision display? I will have two columns (each column one color) of 16 LED, columns are very close to each other, cca. 0.1mm. Both LEDs have same mcd rating.

As I am restricted by current coming from the battery I could use only 2mA forward current LEDs, these LEDs have a typical 400mcd for green and 100mcd for red. Would you say that is enough bright? I really don't have any clue how do they look in reality based on mcd ratings.

Most importantly I would like to know how much is viewing angle important in this type of application ie. POV display.

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    – Wesley Lee
    Commented Apr 22, 2018 at 0:39

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The 30° will work much better than 140°.

The viewing angle includes half the total luminous flux (mcd).

If the mcd remains the same for both LEDs the 30° LED will appear 4.6 times brighter than the 140° LED when viewed straight on. 140/30 = 4.666

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