Expanded options in specifying Luxeons

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Look what has recently shown up on the Lumileds site:
http://www.lumileds.com/pdfs/protected/DS23A.pdf

Hmmm, looks like Lumileds is taking a step forward in offering some form of quality control.

They're not actually offering binning choices though, they're just offering a line of Luxeons that meet a certain minimum criteria, e.g. whites have >X lumens output. Wonder how much extra it'll cost...

Just checked Future and they are offering specific Bins? When this happen?
LXHL-MW1D-N2J
LXHL-PW01-BINQR

Kirk

A part number search at the Future site yields some insight into what they plan to offer. Depending upon part no, it appears that ordering options vary from no choice [as before] to quite a bit of binning. In some cases you can chose flux, Vf, or color, but no choice of two or more.
Here is a link to the 1W LD white emitter options:
http://www.future-active.com/results.asp?ddCountry=USA&ddCurrency=USD&SearchType=Exactly&txtSearch=lxhl-bw01
Most of these you can figure out but I have no idea what the -NOD one is. Notable is the offer of the "G" Vf [I presume] which is the 2.79-3.03V bin. This would help accommodate those manufacturers of the direct drive 2 cell lights.