Virence VS35SP36 MCPCB - cost effective (High CRI) General Lighting solution

My jetusolis 5000K tint is pale creamy yellow (cooler hotspot) and the 6500K is (“was” as I lost it a few days ago) pale blue/cyan, how is the tint of the mix, maukka ?

could this be used in an 18650 flashlight ?.
6500+5000k mix?.
Optosolis Flooder?

I have a wizard pro 6500k. would consider an LED swap or new wizard pro with this if that would work as an EDC.
thanks

This is literally perfect! There is no cyan hole.

Im in on a blended 5k/6.5k quadtrix for my RRT-01 :wink:

I think it might require a new head on the RRT-01 to fit this but lets make it happen.

Seriously if Clemence can identify a flashlight host that can use this as a mule for photography, there should be a market. Perhaps Clemence can start modding a batch like the Jetsolis. I will be first customer :smiley:

D-cell Maglites are the first thing that come to mind.

You need an ID of 46.6mm to fit the board.

Xmund XD-FL2 :smiley:

Too big, I’m expecting a D1S sized light with 21700 battery to make it actually practical.

It would be extremely tricky to put them in Wizard or Tiara. I give up, perhaps someone else can

There’s 5700K E17A for that

There are plenty out there if you don’t care about focused beam and bulk head size

[Clemence]

UPDATE 190707: Soldering Tips

You can solder this MCPCB with almost any common solder paste, as long as it contains active flux (no expired). HASL surface finish makes solder wet readily on it. Sn63Pb37 or Sn96,5Ag3Cu0,5 works best.

The correct and easiest method to apply solder paste is to use solder paste stencil. Although you can get away with solder wires, it’s a mess to work with and dosing would not be accurate (larger pads will hold more solder). I have found the best stecil dimension for my application using laser cut 0,15mm thick polyimide sheet. You can download the DXF file here.

Adjust the aperture size according to your preferred stencil thickness. Thicker stencil requires smaller aperture area. Never use the “tapping” method to solder Nichia 757 on this MCPCB. It’s a bad practice and should never be used anyway. Tapping will only make the excess solder balls to short circuit neighboring LEDs. Almost all 757 Nichias have exposed contact points at their four sides, solder balls will cling to it.


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[Clemence]

Any suggestions for a casing that is weatherproof and can be used for 110V outdoor residential security/area lighting?

Built in dusk to dawn or motion sensor is a plus.

Thanks!

The possibilities are endless. First you can start with the driver. I like Inventronics, Meanwell, and Osram for their sophisticated options, control, and wide range of choices. But there’s a very good off the shelf ready to use (or assembled) with very small form factor very useful for DIY projects:
Nano & Micro driver
There are 100V, 120V, and 230V variants

For IP 6x rated casings you can use thick linear extruded aluminum heatsink and glass or PMMA cover bolted (with sealant) on it.

Below are my old 2016 design for a hotel’s garden lights. The design was 2 watts each (20pcs in total), centrali dimmable, photo sensor activated. All LED modules and the internal wiring permanently potted in clear optical grade silicone to withstand UV radiation. Plastic or PMMA will yellow and degrades in less than 2 years if exposed to sunlight 12 hours a day.


[Clemence]

Clemence…I’m into 3030 medium power leds recently. I need something cheap, powerful, 3V with ok light quality (say CRI90). I’ve seen that Optisolis overdrives nicely but suffers from high Vf and I’d like something more powerful…do you have experience with overdriving other 757 LEDs?

I will soon bring these mid power LED to the store. They’re currently (Nichia’s) most powerful and efficient mid power class LED. Unfortunately both are dual dies, not so good for flashlighting application:
3V class: NF2W757G-V3F1 up to R9050
6V class: NF2W757GR-V3 up to R9050

I will test the 6V GR-V3 soon. But at the moment only have 3000K R80, 3000K R9050, and 4000K R9050.

For single dies, but not quite as powerful and efficient as both above and should be flashlight friendly due to the perfectly centered die.
NFSW757H up to R9050.

EDIT: forgot to mention that they’re DIRT CHEAP! Estimated to be about $0,15/each retail (could be cheaper).
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[Clemence]

Dual die is not a problem for me. I want flood and I want a few of them anyway. 8 per cell. Will happily wait for the results. :slight_smile:
These are not the most efficient around, at least on paper (beaten by Osram, Samsung and Everlight) and I have a hunch they may not be the most powerful either but being tested for overdriving and easily available would be a major value factor. :slight_smile:

You know what I meant. “They are the most powerful and efficient mid power LED…….(in Nichia’s 757 mid class family)”

Ah, I see, thanks for the clarification. I thought that you meant something more general.

Almost any good high power LED such as 219F, 319B, XPG3, or XPL2 will certainly beat mid power LED efficacy.
In real world application the cost of high power LED just can’t compete with mid power LED when it comes to sustained long run total system efficiency. Unless you are willing to invest at least 10x the investment cost.

Checked the Esttool and that’s not the case. This makes it even better! So the real drawback is only luminaire size and optic compatibility. This fact, makes me want to make a home lighting with 150lm/watt operating efficiency!
Check this:

[Clemence]

Medium power LEDs go to very high efficacies like 228 lm/W of CRI80 from Everlight 62-227ET/KK7D (even more when the LED is underdriven). I’m yet to see this beaten by high power ones.
According to Led4Power:

Here we have 199 CRI80 lm/W at 65 mA for NF2W757GT-V3F1. Not bad bat not special. In CRI90 the same model does 165 lm/W, compared to ~200 lm/W of Samsung and Everlight.

But in what I do now I’m interested mostly in CRI90 lm/$ vs. lm/mm² sweet spot. Efficiency matters but is secondary. Overdriven Medium power clearly dominates lm/$ while overdriven CSP high power clearly wins lm/mm². Interestingly, CSP medium power should be the sweet spot but I failed to find any really cheap yet good top-emitting CSP LEDs (top emission is important for dense packing).

So far I’m with medium power because while I’m not really happy with lm/mm², it’s good enough - and price is much lower.

Optisolis is very good and if I use it to estimate NF2W757GT-V3F1 performance I really like the results. Others could be better but reasonably-predicted beats wildly-predicted so this is my top pick so far. And learning that I can expect to see it tested was really nice. :slight_smile:

One idea that I have for a future project is 200 lm/W CRI90 lantern. 1/4-1/3 of LT1 size, same runtime. Different beam for different uses so not a direct competition though. 200 lm/W only on low, stretching that to 200 lm/W high would be in order of $100 per light.
Medium power LEDs seem like the only option to deliver this kind of efficacy.