Three Oslons tested: 1) latest gen. Oslon Black Flat 2) SSL80 4000K 92CRI latest gen. 3) SSL80 4500K 96CRI 1 gen. before latest

Great! Thank you, Enderman.

You’re welcome :slight_smile:

Hey, interesting emitter!
Just requested a quote from RS (UK) for 5 pieces of Black Flat v1.2 5500K, but i read Djozz is waiting for v1.3 high CRI?
Either way, subbed to this thread… :slight_smile:

What does “v1.2” mean?

Ehm, not sure what you mean, Jerommel. AFAIK the current Black Flat is the latest one, it only comes in one tint and there is not a new version announced.

I am waiting for the high CRI 3rd generation Oslon Square (is out now but no one sells it in small quantities yet), if that is what you refer to?

Ah, yes, that must have been it…
I sometimes mix up the types, names and numbers in my head with all these emitters…

LUW HWQP is the 2nd version of the Black Flat, “version 1.2” as they call it in the data sheet.
LUW H9QP is version 1.1

So even though digikey has a 2000 minimum order I found it on mouser for $5 a piece.
http://ca.mouser.com/ProductDetail/OSRAM-Opto-Semiconductors/LUW-HWQP-8M7N-EBVF46FCBB46-8E8H/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMt82OzCyDsLFM%252b7yORtb%2FhA55GIye8lCf8%3D
It doesn’t look like you can order a specific bin.

MTN electronics hasn’t updated with any info about stocking these yet , so if anyone wants to reflow it on their own and test it out go ahead :slight_smile:

You never asked for a link, I could have told you that.

Osram almost never sells specific Bins. This explains the high variance between the LEDs.

It’s been a while, I have recently ordered 10 of the Black Flats for my next project.

Mountain Electronics doesn’t seem to want to stock them, so I will have to reflow them myself.
I’m going to use Noctigon XP-32 because of the thickness and area, it will help with thermal transfer from the MCPCB to the heatsink.
Depending on how easy they are to reflow, I might test two, or all 10 of the LEDs I get. I didn’t have enough money to buy 10 of the MCPCBs and reflow them all at once.

Not sure yet if I want to use a 240mm liquid cooler or a regular air CPU heatsink to do my testing.
The air cooler is what will be used in the final build, but at the same time I’m going to be doing my testing with regular thermal paste instead of liquid metal so maybe using the liquid cooler will balance that out a bit.

I probably won’t be measuring lumens unless I get access to the integration spheres at my university, but if they are easy to reflow I will be binning all 10 to find the best performing one for my build.

It would be nice if you post the results of your binning process. I would test each LED at maybe a low current and a high current (4-4.5A). Additionally you could also check what each LEDs maximum brightness is and at what current.

Yeah, it won’t be super useful without lumens but it could tell us where the peak current is with better cooling.
If I do all 10 we should be able to see the difference between flux bins.

Yeah, it won’t be super useful without lumens but it could tell us where the peak current is with better cooling.
If I do all 10 we should be able to see the difference between flux bins.

Do you have a spare (small) smooth reflector? You could measure the luminous intensity and we could calulate the luminance and approximate the lumens from that.

No not really, just lenses.
If I have time this coming year then I’ll ask if I can use an integrating sphere, will be much more accurate than anything else.

Looking forward for this test.
Djozz recently build another flat black in Supwildfire reflector and he got 350kcd while I with old xp-g2 s4 2b(previous throw king) in my best Supwildfire build got around 300kcd (when I calculate lux meter difference data that I was given from Djozz). But I probably did not had the best xpg2s42b here.

BTW where did you bought them? Can you share us a link? Maybe I would like to give it a try in a smaller aspheric and of course with precoolimator.

http://ca.mouser.com/ProductDetail/OSRAM-Opto-Semiconductors/LUW-HWQP-8M7N-EBVF46FCBB46-8E8H/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMt82OzCyDsLFM%252b7yORtb%2FhA55GIye8lCf8%3D
Pretty sure mouser.com has them too if you’re in the US.
HWQP is the one you want, and no place sells individual bins, they’re all a group from 8M to 7N so to get the most out of the LED you need to buy a lot and bin it yourself :frowning:

Thanks Mr. Enderman.

“They’re all a group from 8M to 7N so to get the most out of the LED you need to buy a lot and bin it yourself ”
Yes this is certainly disadvantage… Especially for guys like myself that are selling their mods.
I know Osram has great stuff like 4715AS emitter(with that emitter they listened to customers and made superior product to previous 4715S) , and if they will further develop this led and maybe even enlarge it will be a winner.

I read this part in the datasheet:

The above Type Numbers represent the order groups which include only a few brightness groups (see page 5). Only one group will
be shipped on each packing unit (there will be no mixing of two groups on each packing unit). E. g. LUW
HWQP-8M7N-ebvF46fcbB46-8E8H means that only one group 5N, 6N, 7N, 8M, N6 will be shippable for any packing unit.

If I interpreted this correctly, I think this means that for a single reel of 2000 LEDs, they will all be the same bin.
So buying 1 or 10 LEDs won’t matter because chances are they will all be the same.
Since the distributors don’t test the LED to find out which bin it is, even if you could afford it ($4k per reel) you would be buying 2000 LEDs of a mystery bin, and they will all perform the same.
:frowning:
Assuming that the distributors only order in quantities of 2000, it may be possible to wait until their stock is near a multiple of 2000, and then purchase a bunch of LEDs at once and have a chance of getting LEDs from two reels.
For example, mouser (canada) has 8036 in stock, so maybe if I bought 72 LEDs I would get 36 from one reel and 36 from another reel. This would effectively double the probability of getting a good bin.
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On the other hand, I have seen stuff like 6N7N instead of 8M7N so I think certain places can sell a smaller range of bins. 8M to 7N is from worst to best, however 6N to 7N are the two best bins.
https://octopart.com/luw+hwqp-6n7n-ebxd46ebzb46-osram+opto-74739048
It says 0 stock, but maybe there are other places that sell only the best 6N or 7N bins, and then you have higher chances of getting a good LED bin :slight_smile:
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As of right now though, pretty much everyone who has tested a flat black has found it to give higher intensity than an XP-G2 though, so I still have high hopes of great performance even if I get a bad bin.

Maybe someone should tell Hank from IO store(or any other led store owner here) to get them. They probably have good connections and can demand the best of manufacturers and if they’ll do that I don’t even doubt they will sell 2000 or more pcs in no time.
This emitter is good even if it draws only 3,6A with fet driver while giving same or higher numbers than old XP-G2 cause battery will last longer and light will run cooler in small and not so chunky aspheric lights.
So Djozz with one mod got 285kcd (Brinyte B158 fet driver modded, 3,6A draw) and unbeatable 350kcd record with Supwildfire, direct drive mod and 4,5A current draw. I got around 320kcd with good old XP-G2 S4 2B after adding Djozz lux meter measuring parameters for same budget lux meter we both have.
So this is emitter with great potential. Really wish that Cree starts producing super throwy XP-G2(or however will they call them) flat emitters. That would shorten mod work time for us.