what's after the MCE?

[mcbsteve]

I LOVE flashlights! I own a Dereelight DBS MCE and love it.

I can't wait for something even brighter than the MCE is released. Anyone have info about what LED will be next?

 

[Patriot]

Is this really a practice post or were you really asking? If so you'll want to head over the the LED Flashlights section of the forum. :)

 

[steve6690]

In anticipation of this post being moved..I'm going to say I wouldn't be surprised to see a 6-die version of the MC-E which will outgun the Ostar.Please......

 

[Jarl]

IMHO 9 dies. You have a square and there's a die in the middle of the LED for the reflector/lens to focus on... Only problem is getting the bond wires to the 9th die!!

 

[scottaw]

Everything gets smaller eventually, who knows how many dies they'll put in a led in 10 years, 50,100 dies, each 1/10th the size of a current rebel die? Look how fast computer electronics shrunk, my first computer had a 1GB HD, my cellphone has a 8GB microsd.

 

[znomit]

IMHO 9 dies. You have a square and there's a die in the middle of the LED for the reflector/lens to focus on... Only problem is getting the bond wires to the 9th die!!

Maybe 8 .... mmmm donuts.

 

[saabluster]

Everything gets smaller eventually, who knows how many dies they'll put in a led in 10 years, 50,100 dies, each 1/10th the size of a current rebel die? Look how fast computer electronics shrunk, my first computer had a 1GB HD, my cellphone has a 8GB microsd.

Actually the opposite is the trend in LEDs. As technology has increased it has allowed them to make bigger dies that are still financially viable.

 

[csshih]

why bother have so many dies? more failure points with bond wires, + harder to manufacturer.

 

[65535]

We can make semiconductor computer chips on the scale of 45nm, I think we can make some LED's with better chips. The issue is that phosphor isn't really that effective. We need a dopant that will produce white light from the die itself.

 

[LLCoolBeans]

Everything gets smaller eventually, who knows how many dies they'll put in a led in 10 years, 50,100 dies, each 1/10th the size of a current rebel die? Look how fast computer electronics shrunk, my first computer had a 1GB HD, my cellphone has a 8GB microsd.

:laughing:

My first computer used a 5.25" floppy and 128k of ram.

I remember when my father bought our first hard drive. It held a whopping 10mb of data. That was an unfathomable capacity at that time. You could load all your games on there and have plenty of room to spare.

Anyone remember writing code in basic? You had to manually number your lines of code and make sure to space the line numbers out, just in case you had to add more code later because you could actually run out of lines. :crackup:

Oh man, have we come a long way.

 

[saabluster]

We can make semiconductor computer chips on the scale of 45nm, I think we can make some LED's with better chips. The issue is that phosphor isn't really that effective. We need a dopant that will produce white light from the die itself.

quantum dots

 

[Pontiaker]

:laughing:

My first computer used a 5.25" floppy and 128k of ram.

I remember when my father bought our first hard drive. It held a whopping 10mb of data. That was an unfathomable capacity at that time. You could load all your games on there and have plenty of room to spare.

Anyone remember writing code in basic? You had to manually number your lines of code and make sure to space the line numbers out, just in case you had to add more code later because you could actually run out of lines. :crackup:

Oh man, have we come a long way.

First puter, anyone know what a Trash 80 was? Yeah I had one.Remember the little football hand held games where you moved the little light through the patterns to score TD's?:ooo:

I also cant wait to see whats next, here's my wishlight. A pocket light a little shorter than the Fenix LOD with 900 Lumens and 2-3 hour runtime. Great throw with some decent spill. Just take a modded 1d P7 mag and put it in the shrink machine!:thumbsup: