> Steve, I sympathize with you 100% but if you want to engage in a fight you > won't win > it is to get in a p*ing contest with the "authorities". Try to make it with a LED :-) There are no regulations on LED. I made my optical datalink with a LED, http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/ronja If you can get those Luxeons, you would get even much better distance. Clock