Mmmkay, some pre-made custom search links from pargos-shop:
There are many high-CRI offerings. I also wonder about the Golden DRAGON series, funny packaging!
Cheers ^:)
What kind of output do they do compared to say a 219b?
Search Ebay for “Oslon CRI 96” and you’ll find them.
They also have CRI 95
Shipping to USA is probably like $12.50 though…
I can confirm the tints are lovely.
I gues they’re better than R9050 too.
The 5730 0.5Watt “E5” in CRI95 are very nice too, by the way.
Not much of a problem for me with output, djozz. I was probably going to use them for some low current flashlight mod or small home lighting project, DIY stuff just for the sake of beautiful light.
I was already noticing v1.3 and v1.0 led versions the other day while inspecting the LCW CQAR.CC and GW CSSRM1.BM datasheets a few days ago. 
Their COB emitters look really good for home/business lighting.
Cheers :-)
they came from here, what you see is what is left
https://www.virence.com/shop
last I heard,
I hope the Volcano does no harm
I hope to learn if there is an Osram option that is as good as the unobtanium sw45 9080
image courtesy of maukka
I have just one sw45, thanks to a generous member… it is in my pocket as EDC since it arrived… makes my hand look nice and pink, though the beamshot shows an unusual amount of violet in a photo, and Im not sure what to make of it, I really like using the LED, it is very “white” in the evening, not too yellow during the day.
(tint is relative to white balance) in this iPhone photo the auto white balance seems to have decided the 4500k N219b Worm is the white balance reference:
Hey Jon,
someone just posted a pic of a black tool AAA they got with a 219C
I have one on the slow boat to me also. will see.
thanks for the link
I think the 219b are going the way of the DoDo Bird
I find the 219c less desirable in terms of being more yellow/green than the 219b, but, the 219c is brighter, and Imo Nichia is playing catchup with Cree(n)…. maybe Green Lumens are brighter than Red Lumens?;-)…
This photo of yours, jon_slider, clearly shows how a 219B 4K Ra9080 is redder than a 219B “worm” (4K Ra9050?) and how a 219B 4.5K Ra9080 is both redder and bluer. With auto white balance your device adjusts the RGB level information of the picture to more or less “match” that of the reference, this makes it useless or hard material to work with when comparing against photographs with a standard colour balance like “daylight”. The pictures we see in our information technology equipment are just too limited in their colour space compared to the amazing capabilities of the human eye, brain and mind.
It is for this reason that I nearly always shot with daylight white balance, with some sort of note when not. Example:
The usual daylight white balance temperature is probably somewhere between 5500K and 6500K across most if not all devices. This is the reason the above picture looks quite warm, though the actual pleasantness of the above light is much higher than what it may seem (CRI85+ emitter, too). 
Cheers :-)
Neal recently found some nice xhp35 HI 80 CRI D4 bin 4500k emitters. I talked him into getting some samples and sending them to me to test (and after the test, who knows where they might end up….lol). I am looking forward to these, I think they would have some real potential indeed.
I might put one in the GT and I really want to make a triple XHP35 EDC triple, why? I need it in my life.
i think i got one from KD:
http://www.kaidomain.com/p/S026091.Cree-XHP35-HI-D2-3D-Neutral-White-5000K-LED-Emitter
hmm… slightly cooler tint…
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Never mind, less exiting bin too…
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Will he sell some?
I also looked up other xhp35 options and this is the best I could find in the HI model (well, unless someone just prefers a different tint that is) also the best Cree lists in the datasheets.
If it tests well and there is demand I don’t think people would have to twist his arm very hard to get him to sell them.
someone bought 8Q and 8T tints, mentioned here.
no idea what they look like next to an N219b…
what would maukka do?
Mine look like 5v or 5w or 6v or 6w.
Still haven’t tried the 3500K ones though.
I have 7 of them, and i have a DQG 3rd 26650…
The DQG is glued though… 
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It seems to be 6U and 6Q according to the Ebay listings.
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There are 3000K MP-E7-L1 OSLON Squares right ;-) there fellows, warm but claims an R9 typical of 90 points.
L1 is the forward voltage bin at 2.8 - 2.9V. 
Cheers ^:)
They are way above the black bbl line. So they will have a very orange tint.
Compared to the NIchia 219B-V1 sw45 R9080 they will also be much warmer because of their 3000-3500K CCT.
Hmm, i think it’s all rather orangey with the low color temperatures.
Well yes and no. You will always be able to tell if the tint is near the BBL or not. It either looks white or it doesn’t. 8Q and 8T and not “good” tints because they are garanteed to not be close to the BBL.
I mean below the BBL it is orange too.
Maybe even more orange than above BBL actually.
I agree 8Q and 8T is not what we would want though.
Im not sure that is universally true. That is why I like to see side by side beam shots. If you go look at photos Ive posted on the first page, you will see the color changes depending on the white balance used.
some people will naturally assume that a warm Color Temperature is a non white Tint, but that depends on the white balance of their brain at the time.
“white” is a very broad category. I agree that 8Q and 8T are above the BBL. That is the reason I posted the Osram bin chart. I still would want to “see” the beams, side by side compared to some Nichia options. Although the latest 219c tend to be above the BBL also, there is a degree of relativity, and again, side by side beam shots are my best metric to determine Tint differences, in addition to Color Temperature differences.
The good news is we have a couple 219b 9080 Nichias in circulation, which can serve as the benchmark to beat.
When people start saying the Osram Oslon is an alternative to an N219b, which are becoming unobtainable, I want to see side by side beams, in addition to maukkas outstanding chromaticity plots…
so far, I have not “seen” an Oslon that would interest me. I invite people suggesting them, to provide evidence of what they look like compared to a 9080 219b… in any color temperature. preferably both at the same color temperature, so we can then see tint differences without being confused by differences in Color Temperature (warmth or coolness).
This chart will give you some idea of the wide range of “white” (it is not a single Color Temperature, though many people tend to think so. Actually, in my limited experience, an LED flashlight that is about 1000k cooler than the ambient light, will “look white”, at the time. But at another time of day, it can look Warm or Cool. Depends entirely on the white balance of the brain at the time.
