[Eliot Ness]

Ron, I have several LED lamps that I bought a while back to experiment with, unfortunately they are subs for #44/47 lamps so that would defeat your desire to eliminate the dropping resistor. I've not used small 120 volt LED's, but in any case they're going to be dropping that excess voltage in some manner.

I'd be interested to see the source of small 120V LED's that you're thinking of using and if they do fit your space requirements they'd be worth a try. Otherwise it'll be simple enough to add the required section to your Candohm and use the conventional bulb or modify the value to use a #44/47 LED lamp.

Personally I wouldn't worry about the wasted watts of the dropping resistor in the Candohm, but I'm interested to see how your experiment turns out.