brightest 3/5 mm LED?

musicmagic · Feb 3, 2013

This has been gone over many times, but I have not seen a new post within the past year, and with the rate LED's are advancing, I thought it would be good to ask this question again.

what is the brightest 3 or 5 mm white LED out there you can buy? (other colors and sizes welcome)

LEDAdd1ct · Feb 3, 2013

See here. ;-)

musicmagic · Feb 4, 2013

are there any distributors of these LED's e.g Mouser, digikey, amazon, ect.?

bstrickler · Feb 7, 2013

This LED is pretty dang bright:

http://www.ledrise.com/product_info.php?info=p947_Nichia-5mm-LED-NSDW570GS-White-LED-36-5lm-120.html

And their list of 5mm LED's:
http://www.ledrise.com/leds/5mm-leds/&XTCsid=f15aie7prkau3eouvtjeb6pi25/

Be warned, their warm white LED's aren't always warm white. They're more of a yellow. I'll get the exact SKU's when I find the LED's again.

tam17 · Feb 8, 2013

Thanks for the heads up, bstrickler. Nichia from link #1 is darn bright! I understand it's a multichip LED, but 34lm@80mA in a T-1 3/4 package?!!

There must be a reason why they don't appear in keychain flashlights. Seems like nothing moved farther than GS series in that niche.

Cheers

Juggernaut · Feb 11, 2013

tam17 said:
Thanks for the heads up, bstrickler. Nichia from link #1 is darn bright! I understand it's a multichip LED, but 34lm@80mA in a T-1 3/4 package?!!

There must be a reason why they don't appear in keychain flashlights. Seems like nothing moved farther than GS series in that niche.

Cheers

34 lumens!? like to see 100 of these in one of those old school shower head light

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