I'm going to make a couple budget lights for my bike. I ordered 100 of those 14000mcd 5mm LED's from DX. How many lumens do you guys think each one will be? I'm guessing around 5, but I'm not sure. I won't have the LED's for probably a month. I don't think i will be using a driver board, but I may. Im going to use 3 nimh in series so 3.6v nominal.
How many 5mm LEDs?
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Wow, thats pretty low. so im going to need at least 40 to 50 of them to equal the P4 LED. Not very efficent, heh. Also the cost is still a tiny bit less but not much. I have no idea what kind of beam I'll have either. I'm guessing the amps to run 40 led's will be more then the P4 would draw at the same brightness. I will just have to experiment and see. I may be buying some P4's and going that route.
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The high power LED can also give you a tighter beam(or a wider one) with the right reflector/optic.
The 5mm LED would give you a wide spot.
The 5mm LED would give you a wide spot.
