The xSIID uses a carrier board that slides into the tube in front of the antenna rod. The chip and LED are situated such that it “shoots out the side” of the glass tube…
The xLED is similar, but without a carrier PCB… the antenna wires are connected directly to the SMT pads of the LED and the LED can be positioned somewhat randomly inside… usually pointing out the side like the xSIID, but sometimes at a 45 degree angle and sometimes very closer to “shooting” out the domed cap of the glass.
only slightly so… the tissue around that end of the LED lights up really well regardless of the direction the LED is facing. Facing up, you get the LED’s output directly without much surrounding tissue lighting up… if the LED is facing exactly away from the skin you get all the surrounding tissue glowing really nicely.
also… i’m fairly certain that the x-series tube shaped implants do rotate around inside their fibrous cocoons on a regular basis… so if you’re “unlucky” just wait 5 minutes
I believe it used to be green, and it’s either white or green now, but I haven’t seen enough pictures of the white to get a good feel for brightness post-install
My guess is that it’s still green since less of that light would be absorbed by the red meaty bits in your hand
I think some of it is subjective, but also wavelengths are affected by absorption through your skin… actually, @Satur9 has answered this previously…standby
Pretty much anything but blue gets confused with other colours. Light shades of blue too but I can see darker shades pretty accurately
I don’t have full achromatopsia or anything
Same here about two weeks ago I found some more Amber colored xSIID through Digiwell in Germany. Bought a second one today and it was marked as the last one.
So I can slowly start making plans for my right arm now and maybe somewhere else…
Sounds interesting! Looking forward to your project.