7.2V, 850mAh for a luxeon five in a two AA mag?

flashniac

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I like to use my luxeons in my twoAA mags, i just want to know if its safe to do it with a luxeon five because of the heat and if anyone has ideas please help me? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 

LED_ASAP

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Re: 7.2V, 850mAh for a luxeon five in a two AA mag

If you put a full 5W into 2AA minimag, you will be running the emitter very very hot, which will cut the already short 500h life spam for a Lux-V even shorter. It will be much better to use a Lux-III with a buck regulator---you can get almost the same amount of light with a much longer life spam.
 
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