Mounting LED To Larger MCPCB/Star

Bigpal · Jul 10, 2012

Hey everyone,
I have some spare XM-L neutral LEDs - bare emitters. I also have some boards that will not accomodate them because they are too large. I'm wondering if there is something that will bridge the gap so I can use these 2 together.

Reflow soldering is not a problem. I'm sure you know, the bottom of the emitter is laid out exactly like the mcpcb, just smaller. Here is the emitter and the board.

Thanks a lot

AnAppleSnail · Jul 10, 2012

XM-L on an XR-E MCPCB? (Identifying by eye)

It will be tough. The easiest way is to make a custom MCPCB to bridge, but then you'd have a custom MCPCB and may as well roll your own full-size one.

Puzzling this in my head it'll involve soldering directly from the MCPCB contacts to the LED contacts. You could:

Reflow a copper square onto the MCPCB with high-melt solder
Solder wires to the XM-L with high-melt solder
Reflow the XM-L to the copper with low-melt solder.

XR-E top, XM-L bottom. Probably not to scale.

wquiles · Jul 10, 2012

Bigpal said:
Hey everyone,
I have some spare XM-L neutral LEDs - bare emitters. I also have some boards that will not accomodate them because they are too large. I'm wondering if there is something that will bridge the gap so I can use these 2 together.

Illumination Supply carries an 8mm board for the XM-L - the smallest I am aware off:
https://illuminationsupply.com/datiled-8mm-xml-mcpcb-p-67.html

Will

Bigpal · Jul 10, 2012

wquiles said:
Illumination Supply carries an 8mm board for the XM-L - the smallest I am aware off:
https://illuminationsupply.com/datiled-8mm-xml-mcpcb-p-67.html

Will

Thanks man. That I was not aware of and should work well.

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