New 3W light engine & led may have potential

Luff · Jun 15, 2005

I stumbled across a product introduction in an electronics design magazine about American Bright's new light engine with 30 degree emitter mounted. Their web page on the product mentions a 7W model, but gives no further information. Specs are minimal and there's no link to a product sheet that I could find.

Still, it might be something an enterprising CPF designer/modder might want to look into.

American Bright web page

Niko · Jun 15, 2005

You can visit the American Bright LED page and select 3W, 5W, or 7W from the High Power LEDs column on the right side of the grid. There is a spec sheet for the 7W LED here But it uses multiple die, and has the same problem as many of the other higher output LEDs like Lamina, they are driven at 2.3A. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

IsaacHayes · Jun 15, 2005

30 degree would be very hard to collimate into a nice beam. It would diverge quite rappidly alone, and be too narrow for reflectors to collect the light..

idleprocess · Jun 15, 2005

American bright LEDs aren't very efficient compared to almost everyone else. I've got most of their products listed in the LED DB in my link.

The higher-power products look to be permanently mounted to large-ish heatsinks.

Product information links:
http://americanbrightled.com/plcc.html
http://americanbrightled.com/3w.html
http://americanbrightled.com/5w.html
http://americanbrightled.com/7w.html

TORCH_BOY · Jun 16, 2005

Just had a look, not my cup of tea

Luff · Jun 16, 2005

Thanks for the input folks.

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