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New flashlight with SBT-70 announced
Looks interesting, can't wait to see the official specs.
New flashlight with SBT-70 announced
Looks interesting, can't wait to see the official specs.
I remember when I posted a thread about why all high power LEDs are squared, now finally a rounded one!! which means....
...no more squared beams with aspheric lenses:devil: (sometimes I'm quite picky about these kind of stuff)
By the way, I couldn't find any specs on this chip... Is it made to compete with the XML? How is the efficiency and the output?
This sounds like a great argument for showerhead lights! Why get an XR-E light when you can have dozens of 5mm cold blue emitters!In my opinion a big chip is always a bad idea. A chip that produces as much light as a 250W MH lamp (20,000 Lumens) would tend to overheat like crazy. It's much better to use many small wattage LED's and space them out to spread the heat out over a large surface. Also round chips might not be a good idea since a large chunk of the silicon substrate would be lost when cutting the die. Even if you could cool this chip effectively you couldn't charge more than $80 to stay competitive with the street lighting market. Since I'm in the business of LED street lighting I can honestly say that I am his customer and that I'm not excited. That being said, I do think this LED would be ideally suited for an intense flashlight mod where price is no object and you wouldn't operate the die at max brightness for more than a couple minutes.
This sounds like a great argument for showerhead lights! Why get an XR-E light when you can have dozens of 5mm cold blue emitters!
In my opinion a big chip is always a bad idea.
Very dumb design, will be expensive and hard to manufacture and will end up with a lot of unusable waste.
Yeah, they should have made it unicorn-shaped!Very dumb design
Save up ;-)will be expensive
As most good LEDs are.and hard to manufacture
Don't have anything witty to say here. That's probably part of the secret sauce is how they can do this without being too wasteful.and will end up with a lot of unusable waste.