Cree Warm White

allburger · Jun 21, 2008

Well today I got my hands on a new Cree Warm White tint. I know that the output on these things isn't up to the standard of the new Q5's and R2's but I figured I'd install it in a P60 Drop in to try it out.

As you can see, I put it into my G2 to try it out.

And here is a shot of the beam pattern and the tint.

It's kind of a neat drop in that I have now. It's not something that I'm going to use alot but its kinda neat to have a cree led drop in with an incandescent tint to it.

underconstruction · Jun 21, 2008

So is it better for color rendition? I am curious about these for outdoor use.

LEDninja · Jun 21, 2008

Re: Cree N4 Warm White

Do you know the tint code?
Should be a number followed by a letter 5A, 7A, 8B etc..

allburger · Jun 21, 2008

yeah yeah, actually its right here... Chromaticity: 8B Flux Bin: N4

LukeA · Jun 21, 2008

I have some experience with P4 7As. I'd love to get my hands on some 6A Q2s.

allburger · Jun 21, 2008

that would be a real nice color

StarHalo · Jun 21, 2008

I like the more incandescent-tinted/warm LEDs for outdoors use; the standard Cree with its otherworldly-cold tone looks awesome indoors or in urban situations, but is completely out of place outdoors/in nature, where I prefer the Luxeon Rebels.

Got any Rebel emitters you can do comparative beamshots with? I'd love to see where the warm Cree stands vs the Luxeon..

xcel730 · Jun 21, 2008

Very interesting.

Now I want one too!

allburger · Jun 22, 2008

I would say that the craziest part of this light is the simple fact that not many people have ever seen an led flashlight that isnt blueish white. People see the color and they automatically think LED...Now you can have a light that is easy on the eyes and people won't believe that its an LED.

Lite_me · Jun 22, 2008

Doesn't an LED binned this yellow (warm) have less output per input than a cooler (blueish) one?

LukeA · Jun 22, 2008

Lite_me said:
Doesn't an LED binned this yellow (warm) have less output per input than a cooler (blueish) one?

That's why they are in lower flux bins. Dies that in cool white would be Q4/Q5/R2 end up as P4/Q2 when they're pushing light through all that phosphor.

LukeA · Jun 22, 2008

StarHalo said:
I like the more incandescent-tinted/warm LEDs for outdoors use; the standard Cree with its otherworldly-cold tone looks awesome indoors or in urban situations, but is completely out of place outdoors/in nature, where I prefer the Luxeon Rebels.

Got any Rebel emitters you can do comparative beamshots with? I'd love to see where the warm Cree stands vs the Luxeon..

Funny you should ask.

EV_007 · Jun 22, 2008

Wow, that does look nice. Any hint of green in the beam to the naked eye? Even the Rebel have a slightly greenish look to them, to me anyways.

LukeA · Jun 22, 2008

EV_007 said:
Wow, that does look nice. Any hint of green in the beam to the naked eye? Even the Rebel have a slightly greenish look to them, to me anyways.

Zero green in any of the four I have.

allburger · Jun 22, 2008

This one has no green to it, it is yellowish with a hint of red maybe. Its so hard to gauge the tint of these things. The color is slightly warmer than a surefire p60 incan.

I'd be interested to try their neutral white tint to see if that is more similar to an incandescent overdriven nice white.

allburger · Jun 22, 2008

LukeA said:
Zero green in any of the four I have.

What do you have your 4 warm whites in?

big beam · Jun 22, 2008

DX has a warm white drop-in.I think it's a Q2 5a.Ordered one today!
DON

LukeA · Jun 22, 2008

allburger said:
What do you have your 4 warm whites in?

1 in a bathroom nightlight and the other three in a Mag mod.

ps000000 · Jun 23, 2008

in real life i would prefer warm white color

allburger · Jun 23, 2008

big beam said:
DX has a warm white drop-in.I think it's a Q2 5a.Ordered one today!
DON

Oh really, what is the link on that?

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