Does anyone know the name of this package type for an LED? Does anyone know where I can get one like this in red?
The package name of this Through Hole LED
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It looks similar to this LED strip: http://www.adafruit.com/products/1138
According to the code linked from that page, it's controlled by a weird protocol used by the Worldsemi WS2811 LED driver chips on the strip: 24 bits for each RGB LED, 800 or 400 kHz data rate, 50 microsecond pause to latch the data. There is a pulse for each bit, 0 bits are a short pulse, and 1 bits are a long pulse.
The package is called by different trade names by companies,
Lumileds Corp calls them "Barracuda",
while
Osram Opto. calls them "Dragon".
The important feature of the package is a heat-conducting metal center, the "heatsink slug", that can be soldered onto a larger heatsink below:
For details and source, see the chapter on LED packaging of the somewhat-retired LED-related website Light-Emitting-Diodes-dot-org - (note different domain).
See the bottom-left image: Chapter 11: Packaging - Fig 11.5.
A possible reason for not having a clear type code for this package could be that it was not actually a LED package, but just a more generic heatsink-with-extra-plastic-lens.
*Barracuda was, at least initially, actually referring to the type of LED die itself, not the package. See ledmuseum.candlepower.us and Philips LED Update - page 8
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It is just a radial through-hole style. Here is one of many red ones I found on digikey.
http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/LTL-709E/160-1084-ND/153446