OSRAM CSLNM1.TG & CULNM1.TG 1mm², CSLPM1.TG & CULPM1.TG 2mm²

Well I guess I’m not clear here then Luminarium. First ya advise to stay away from high current cells like the 30Q and then here ya say it can take more abuse (current) than the old XPG2.

IDK, sounds to me like the White Flat can take a 30Q afterall with FET DD and there’ll be zero to none problems. :laughing:

Uhh… No thanks! I’m good! :smiley:

Yeah, there’s one little tiny thing you’ve missed. He said it CAN take the “abuse” of using a DD driver with max amps. But, it will perform BETTER at a lower current, so that’s the recommended set-up. :wink:

Ok then if I read things right it performs worse with higher current butt it also depends on how long it’s run at that current. Or no? For shorter burst throw activity do ya really need to use lower current batts? And if not can this be mitigated with anything else to improve thermal paths when reflowing?

To me at least dealing with this lower current batt jazz and this led is a PITA. It’s just another frickin’ thing I’d have to keep track of besides all the other shizen I gotta keep track of with ala in just safely charging batts itself. :laughing:

Oh and if it performs worse with high current batts butt STILL outperforms an abused XPG2 then one is still ahead, right? According to Luminarium it’s not gonna harm the KW hardly at all. So what if I get a bit less performance. Butt that’s just for me. Others want it all all the time, baby. :open_mouth:

PS. If I understand Luminarium correctly it can go 20 minutes in Super Thrower mode. Does he mean with lower current batts, apparently so. Butt OTOH can it Super Throw for 5 mins with a 30Q, that I’m not sure of. Hell I rarely go longer than 2 mins on Super Throw mode with anything I own. I got neighbors ya know. :laughing: :open_mouth:

Anybody know temp colour in Kelvin for this led?

I installed OSRAM KW CSLNM1.TG in SP32A V2.0:

Throw is comparable with C8. Here is the picture with Convoy C8 with CREE XP-L HI V2 5D at 2.7A, SP32A with OSRAM KW CSLNM1.TG at 3A and stock Acebeam EC35 at 3.3A. Around 2.5 metres to a wall:


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Sp32a reflector is not for this led for sure

Which spot goes to which light? I assume at least clockwise from lower left butt ya never know. :student:

The floodiest - EC35, the throwiest - C8, the coolest - SP32A

Glad I asked. :laughing: :open_mouth:

What if the led can survive whatever amount of overcurrent? When you do that you're pumping more power into the led it can fruitfully handle.

Wrong. The only reason a regulated linear setup generates more heat than plain direct drive is the price of regulation. The LD25 driver, for example, uses an AON7520 MOSFET and achieves regulation by sensing current through a 10mΩ resistor and using this feedback to precisely tune the VGS MOSFET gate voltage for it to let go no more than the preset driving current, thus no :THUMBS-UP: PWM. The net dissipated power difference versus the same driver without regulation is the additional power spent in the sensing current path, Psense = I² × Rsense. At 5A that is 0.25W, this new LD-25 is particularly efficient in this regard. And of course bear in mind the regulator has to take and bear with any additional voltage delta times current power, thus the increased heat in the driver. This increased heat in the driver nets reduced heat everywhere else in the current path: springs, switch, cell, emitter, etc.

A MOSFET misdriver is just a PWM micro-controlled switch. As I said above, you pay a regulation price in linears. However, this price is not always a hurdle. You complain about heat generation, but do you understand where and how is the heat generated? Any time you “adjust” a plain MOSFET setup via unbypassed springs, using higher internal resistance cells, etc. what you're doing is redistributing where the heat is generated. Which of course can be good.

A linear driver has to burn all excess power to avoid it reaching the emitter, which of course will make them hotter than unregulated misdrivers which of course do nothing.

Sure as FLICK a misdriver isn't going to be very hot, how could it be? It is doing nothing besides quickly switching on and off when required. However, this does not mean the heat isn't going to be generated elsewhere. It's the emitter who is going to take the penalty among other parts like the switch, my dear. Pumping 7A in the white flat isn't going to insta-kill it, but it sure increases emitter stress unnecessarily and nets you lower performance.

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Ya know this guy noferek9 prolly makes the most practical real world sense outta all of us here. :laughing:

“the problem is that most of us are going to change the xpg2 on our flashlights which was with DD drive,i prefer to just change the led keep the drivers and just find better batteries for that setup.”

Cuz I can tell ya right now I’m not gonna rip out a bunch of XPG2’s either much less their (gasp….heresy!) DD drivers.

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“Sure as FLICK a misdriver isn’t going to be very hot, how could it be? It is doing nothing besides quickly switching on and off when required. However, this does not mean the heat isn’t going to be generated elsewhere, you know? It’s the emitter who is going to take the penalty among other parts like the switch, my dear. Pumping 7A in the white flat isn’t going to insta-kill it, but it sure increases emitter stress unnecessarily and nets you lower performance.”

Man, I almost can’t wait to read Luminarium’s reply to this one.

:laughing: :sunglasses: :heart_eyes:

Sure as FLICK I can wait. In fact I don't really care. No one's paying me for this and I believe it is unlikely he's going to get off his high donkey. He may already be aware of the provided information, except he may not have tried a proper linear driver like the ones from led4power or an LD-25. Or he just doesn't care.

By the way, I love Donkey Kong. ;-)

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Well all I can say is I’m being entertained. I was starting to get bored around here. :laughing: :+1:

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You said it. And it is true.

About pumping that 7A…

Don’t be like Notthawhackjob. I explainded to people with FET DD that low current cell is must since it will not pull more than 5.5A from emitter and becasue of that it will be safe in usage.

So once again for people still using FET DD setup. Use low current cell (Sanyo GA, LGBD1, and similar) in FET DD setup.

That configuration will run from 5.5A (at 4.2V) > 3.3A(at 3.4V). So nothing bad will happen to emitter and emitter will perform at its maximum performance (look at L4P test and Djozz graph).

Don’t use high current cells in FET DD setup (samsung inr 30Q, Sony VTC and similar) cause they will pull more than 7A of current and could potentially kill your emitter.

Yes all of that is understood. Thanks anyway. :THUMBS-UP:

A lower current cell is also of benefit for a linear driver, reducing the driver's dissipated heat.

There are some duper low price deals for high capacity low current cells in AliExpress. Asked Henrik to get some reviewed, by the way.

Quite low Vf, so low it could also work very well with an efficient buck driver like an LD-29 fed with single cell. Stack an R050 over the stock R025 for 4.5A maximum drive current.

Sofirn sells the C8S host with 20+mm driver hole and smooth reflector, I wonder what sort of throw performance would that net with the white flat. 200KCd?

Cheers :-)


For people got confusing about different performance L4P and Djozz got of their tests.

Djozz got best performance at 4.8- 5A while L4P got it at 5.75A.

L4P explained why they got different readings: “Excess solder could cause that when power density is high like with this LED. Also, I’m using lead-free solder which has a little bit better thermal conductivity.”

I did my own re flow and I used very thin layer of solder paste we mostly use here (that cheap budget mechanic solder paste in syringe) and I got similar performance to L4P test.

Yes I also find that confusing but I know that my test subjects Osram white flat performs as in L4P test. And since I am testing it for more than month in fet dd setup I know it is robust emitter that will work without any issue with low current 18650 cell like LGBD1 and that it can even survive abusing with high current cell like Samsung 30Q but I don’t recommend that to anyone. Why would anyone want to run emitter on 7A if it has best performance on 5.5A?

So yes. Barkuti is right. If you want to be worry free get regulated drivers, but if you insist on FET DD be very careful and use low current cell or you could fry something out :slight_smile:

New tests:

52KCd in Godmes T01 (14500)
118KCd in Olight M22 (30Q)

Original driver in both. The main difficulty of this led is propperly focusing. It was impossible to focus the TK61 (600KCd max) and Warsung MX900 (83KCd max)