No direct drive? Thats a bummer, now i have to order extra drivers for this :cry:
Oh well no big deal. Saved enough on the dies that i can maybe get a couple nanjg’s sent over.
No problem djozz. Mail is send. And maybe we get the leds we want for a good price.
Another question is how to drive a UV tripple with this leds? And at the same time the mc-e with the same driver. Is there a better way than using 20* 7135chips?
Ps.
- Did anybody know a source for the good “Raptor claw” 7135chips? I have a few left but they will not last long. And with more low Vf LEDs getting on the market i want to stock up a few if i can get them.
- Is there a cheap source for a 385nm filter lens? Like the ZWB2 for 365nm.
@djozz
I found this PDF and there are a few leds that i find interesting (https://www.lasercomponents.com/fileadmin/user_upload/home/Datasheets/lg/lg_uv_led_overview.pdf).
1.LEUVA33W70TL00
https://www.irtronix.com/leuva33w70tl00
But what kind of ledboard would i need for this leds?
2. LEUVK33W80TV00
https://www.irtronix.com/leuvk33w80tv00
3.LEUVA66X00TV00
http://www.irtronix.com/leuva66x00tv00
Thans for the links.
A year ago I have tried to contact Laser Components by email trying to obtain a few LG UV-leds, and they never resoonded, perhaps they were not that interested in selling just a few leds.
The irtronics link is new to me, but again no webshop, I bet that they do not want to sell just a few samples.
The LEUVA66X00TV00 has a 6060 footprint. Is there a copper DTP board available for this footprint?
And how would you drive the UV tripple? With fet and small wires to reduce the amps or would you go regulated?
I want to ask if you still have a few springs left to sell from the batch you mentioned in the Q8 thread?
I’m not aware of a 6060 dtp board.
For the triple a 7135 based driver with 12 chips, i.e. a biscotti driver from Simon with 4 extra chips.
I do have very few springs left but will keep them. Btw, I’m totally surprised that in the 3 years since I had that small batch of phosfor bronze springs made, nothing happened in China, no other phosfor bronze spring came to the market but that same tiny spring that Fasttech first started selling.
Did you still know what the batch of springs had cost? Because there is no really good spring available a GB could be interesting. The last one i was really happy with was bought from Richard. But it is not listed anymore in his shop.
They were expensive because I only had 200 made: they costed me a dollar a piece. This was my sales thread: trying to sell a few of my custom made phosfor-bronze springs
If I had 2000 made, they had costed me at least 3 times less but that was a financial risk that I did not dare to take. If I had known that it would stay the only proper spring for sale in 3 years to come, I would probably have sold all 2000 after all.
Mhh not cheap! So at the moment we only could hope that a shop will jump on this. It would be nice to have a source for good strong springs.
i am still searching for the good 7135chips. FT can not get them and i am running out of options. I need 20pcs for the MELD-X driver but only have 17-18 left.
PS.
The UV leds arrived today.
Mine arrived today, too!
Thanks!
leds received, thank you.
I still haven’t received mine yet. I keep watching the mail box… every day… hoping to see a package… Maybe today. :weary:
how about DD with FET but with a resistor glued with thermal epoyx to the host that eats up that 0.3-0.5V to get to a safe current
I got mine today! WooHoo! 
Got mine last night!
tried it with few tir lenses, the only tir that wont block uv is pmma, originally i was gonna use triple from ledil, but tall dome makes it impossible to use that lens, polycrb, lenses all block uv, so they are useless with this led, the led does fit under cute 3up (35mm) lens, and it is the only lens, that i have, that fits, somewhat focuses it. and does not block uv.
i wonder if dedoming will either fix focus situation or make it worst. will have to try that later
Thanks for the heads up. Let us know if you find anything else that works (like de-doming).
dedoming did not improve anything, it actually made things worst, output dropped by a lot, at least with lenses i have, so far the best combo, is 35mm 3up from ledil. i have 3ups made by different manufacturer out of polycab, they do not work.
my next project would be another woody, with 3 triple , and white light between (using 4 led 34mm star from mtn electronic) i wanted to do 4 lens but i was careless enough to leave a plastic strip with leds on the table for the night, and my cat found it, destroyed 4 leds, lol from the looks of it, he defiantly enjoyed it,
Thanks alpg88! Sorry for your troubles (bad de-dome and hungry cat). Are you going to enter the O-L contest this year? That woody 3 triple with white in the middle sounds like a cool project! :sunglasses:
if i come up with something i’ll enter, but woody i already did twice, did not get me far, (5th and 6th) it is not a winning design. i’ll build one with uv anyway i need it for different purpose, but not for the contest.
i build the light, this weekend will try it outdoors. i actually recovered more leds than i expected, cat only destroyed 2, others were saved by thick reel, enough for 4 triples, all wired in parallel, fed by 6a linear driver.
white leds in the center ( has no optics, basically, the beam pattern is horrible, with dark spots everywhere, but it does pretty good job at illuminating dark spaces. it also wont blind if you look directly into it.
only 3 triples have white leds, all parallel too, 4,5A linear driver, both drivers, are slave boards from ME)
whole thing fed by 6 18650, in parralel, usb charging board,
