Anything out ther brighter at a distance than our flashlight?

enginyr

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We use a CBT-90 LED with 4D 11,000mah batteries. Our technology uses light recycling and a 50mm aspheric. How do you add a picture?
 

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There is always something brighter :) From my experience SST-90 with 50mm aspherical will have less than 50k lux.
 

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Wait, is this a question on a product, or an advertisement? I believe the rules state that advertising a product is not allowed.
 

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How can it be an advertisement if I haven't even showed anything yet. lol

Anyways its just a prototype. We license the technology to produce a very narrow angle beam with high efficiencies. Kinda like 3M. We made a prototype just to show what "light recycling" is all about.
 

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There is always something brighter :) From my experience SST-90 with 50mm aspherical will have less than 50k lux.

CBT-90-W

Introduction

The CBT-90 White Series LEDs are presently available in a chip-on-board (CoB) package, non-lensed. Developed to provide a product configuration that is both easy to integrate as well as to provide a package architecture that allows the LED's to be operated at levels not seen in the market.

Features
  • High Output – 800 lumens (6500K at high efficiency) or up to 2200 lumens (6500K at full output)
  • Large, single chip with an emitting surface area of 9.0 mm2
  • High thermal conductivity package with a package thermal resistance of only 0.8° C/W
  • Integrated thermistor allows for real-time monitoring of the LED's temperature
  • Lumen maintenance of greater than 70% after 60,000 hours
  • Variable drive current from less than 1 A to 13 A
  • Available in a variety of Correlated Color Temperatures (CCT's) per ANSI C78-377-2008
  • Designed with a standard on-board connector

Benefits


  • Allows designers to replace LED arrays with a single LED
  • Single high output LED source simplifies system design (optics, power, control, etc.)
  • Non-lensed design allows for easy integration with specialized secondary optics
  • Instant "ON" eliminates the warm-up time typically seen with traditional light sources
  • Mercury-free, RoHS compliant environmentally-friendly technology
  • Outstanding reliability and durability beyond what traditional, glass-based light sources can achieve
  • Lumen output range that can provide industry standard efficiency as well as industry leading light output from a single package
 

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We won't know until his next post or next few posts. Right now, we don't even know how "bright" his light even is...yet.
 

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Wait, is this a question on a product, or an advertisement? I believe the rules state that advertising a product is not allowed.

Since he's posted no links, brand or model names - just a small selection of technical data - I don't see how it could possibly be considered an advertisement. :thinking:

Something of a vague question though - to make anything approaching an accurate comparison you'd have to take lux readings from the OP's light and it's nearest competitors at a fixed distance, in the same conditions (i.e. on the same night) and using the same lux meter. And even then it comes down to how you perceive "brightness" - a tightly-focused light could give a higher lux reading than a more floody model even if the tightly-focused one produces fewer actual lumens, if you get my drift?

The beam from my $3, 5mW laser pointer is much "brighter" at 200 metres than that from my car's 55-watt halogen headlights, but the tiny spot of light from the laser is no use at all for illuminating anything.
 

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describing something as being "brighter" still says surprisingly little. your run of the mill XR-E w/ an appropriate lens or optic will give a higher lux reading than an SST-90.
 

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i think he is refering to Luminus CBT-90 and 4d nimh cells
 

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sounds interesting....
Send one to cpf member bigchelis. Hes the only one with a calibrated sphere... and he tests for steady-state lumens not instant-peak.

Good Luck bringing it to market!!
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NO!!!!!!!! SEND ME A DEMO, I HAVE AN SR90 TO COMPARE IT TO. IT'S THE CURRENT HIGH WATER MARK FOR LEDs SO WHY NOT. THEN I'LL SEND IT TO BIGCHELIS FOR TESTING....PROMISE.:D
 

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We have a lumens meter here. It will hit about 700-800 on a fresh set of batteries? We can a hold 1-2 degree angle and our spot is either rectangular and it will image the LED or circular if we use a light pipe or light recycling collar.
 
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We have a lumens meter here. It will hit about 700-800 on a fresh set of batteries but the true lumens test is how tight a spot you can achieve at a distance. Is there such a standard set ? We can a hold 1-2 degree angle and our spot is either rectangular and it will image the LED or circular if we use a light pipe or light recycling collar.

This is incorrect... a lumen test needs to be performed in an integrating sphere. It is the total sum of emitted light from a source.

The brightness of spot at a given distance is the Lux, not Lumen output.

There is no such thing as a "lumen meter"... At least not without an integrating sphere to accompany it.
 
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enginyr

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SST-90 is a 30watt LED. CBT-90 is a 50watt LED
 
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