Just to keep you updated, I put the Luxeon MZ on MOSLED 4040 board in a Convoy M1 with an A6 Fet driver.
The beam is smooth with the OP reflector, and it does produce some nice lemons. It’s the first time I’ve seen such a cool tint with good CRI. It’s disturbing, I don’t know if I like it yet
Anyway, it’s a nice hand warmer for the winter :-p
The LD-4B driver is now set to 4.5A in my C8, along with an Osrma White Flat 1mm² and does a nice 160kCd
Note: if you want to order some of compatible pcbs with LEDs soldered for use with driver other than LD-B4, please add bare LEDs in cart together with PCB and leave a note about soldering.
on the LD-x4 drivers what happens if you set the current higher than what the cell or LED will support? Does it just act like a normal FET? If so, is there some extra resistance somewhere making this a bad idea?
It behaves like DD driver on that mode (so called dropout mode of linear power supply). Nothing bad will happen, this is normal condition when battery is more or less empty and (LED Vf + parasitic voltage drops) is higher than battery voltage.
I did not mod anything with Carclo optics. They fitted well, although it was a tight fit. The Luxeon V is very flood under Carclo optics. Not my cup of tea. I reverted back to Nichia’s in my Emisar D4. Will be trying out Luminus SST-20 soon… From what I have read they perform well under optics.
Thanks for your input on this! I’m willing to try a Luxeon V on 10511 optics and see what I get, as it has a narrower beam.
I’m not familiarized with the Luminus, but as I’ll order from L4P, maybe I’ll try to get one to see how it looks like!
I have tried all the possible Carclo optic configurations. You just won’t get throw out of this emitter in those specific optics. The physical emitting surface is just too big! It floods beyond the TIR part. You’re better off trying the Luxeon V2, that has a smaller physical emitting surface and should yield much better optical performance.
The Luxeon V performs well in a reflector. I have a Convoy S3 single and I put swapped them in on my BLF Q8. Now it really performs!
Looking to do a hotrod build around the LD-B4/MZ DTP using an S2+ host, would the MZ be alright driven up to 12A CC using the 8-12A driver?
I had planned on doing a floody MZ triple, but I’ve read the MZ will handle up to 15A before output drops so now the plan is to use a 45/60deg pebbled TIR and a single MZ emitter driven with the 12A B4, simplifying the build without much loss in output. Is this a sane plan? I imagine a triple would be marginally more efficient at higher output than the single emitter if it were also driven up to 12A.
I guess I should also warn you. If you do not use a high current spring or bypass it with a wire you will likely have problems with it softening up to the point it loses connection/melts.
The above statement confuses me. I'm about to order an KW CSLPM1.TG on ∅20mm 3030 DTP MCPCB to be fed with a heavily modified LD-29 driver, does this apply to me?
That note was about LEDs which I have, but not at all possible pcbs (mostly 3x,4x,6x mosX PCBs). For example I still don't have listed SST-20 and Luxeon V2 soldered on 32mm and 34mm mosX boards for ANGIE,CUTE and ANNA optics, but I can do that on request.