[1900k edition is in!] WTS: 1900k-5800k 5mm LED 95+ CRI

I finally got around to ordering 100 of these unique little 3400K LEDs today!!! Looking forward to working with them on some projects.

Been out of the making and modding lights for a while… but with 2 (…and now looking at 3) PG&E power outages here lately I’ve renewed inspiration to make more custom battery powered indoor lamps and lights.

Lights that run for hours, soft lighting that is warm and comfortable. That’s what is needed when the power is out for many hours! These little warm high CRI wonders have inspired me.

Here's the beam comparisons between "5800k" version of these LEDs vs Original Yuji's 5600k LEDs (Thanks Djozz for sending these to me!). All pics are taken at 5500k white balance setting.

https://imgur.com/a/mhyavzn

Yuji's: Perpendicular

WTS: perpendicular

Yuji's: beam profile

WTS: beam profile

Tint comparison. Your LED wins for its better beam profile, tint is really close.

Are there any 3mm options in HI CRI?

They don’t make 3mm version regularly. That means I will have to make 10k pcs minimum and I don’t get to choose the tint.

So, that’s a “no” for now.

I got a sample of 10 of his high CRI 5600K leds from rngwn in this week and I did some testing.

First a beamshot from 20cm distance from the wall:

Actually this shot looks nicer as in reality, the beam is indeed really smooth but there is a slight tint change at the very edge but it is nothing serious, at least not so bad as rngwn’s own beamshot in this thread.

The tint, I measured at 5mA and at 50mA.

5mA: CCT=5610K, duv=+0.0033, CRI=98.0, R9=91.4, R12=80
50mA: CCT=5666K, duv=+0.0010, CRI=98.2, R9=92.8, R12=87

Here are some graphs at 50mA:

So the tint is really really good and does not change much at different currents.

The light output. I made no graph (not enough time) but a video. You see the led shining at a luxmeter that I placed at a precise distance so that the luxmeter reading is quite exact 10 times the output in lumen. So a reading of 93 corresponds to 9.3 lumen total output. The voltage and current can be read from the USB power supply. I checked, they are not greatly off from reality.

So, like the 3400K led, it maxes out at about 120mA (25 lumen), but above 80mA (22 lumen) there is not very much gain. This is a very nice performance, at a bit but not much better than the Yuji 5600K led.

Conclusion: great led again! Well done.

As discussed via PM also, I expect a good market for high CRI 3mm leds, especially at warmer tints. Of course over here we like them anyway because we like all leds, but in model building (trains!), perhaps a bigger hobby than flashlights worldwide, a lot of use is made of 0603 and 1205 leds, sold on ebay with two wires already attached because soldering them is too difficult for most, while the application of standard 3mm leds is more robust, way easier and often looking better. I have one time bought warm 3mm leds (was not easy to find) and the tint is quite disgustingly yellow-green, I would not like to light my preciously built railroad yard with those.

But I’m not a model builder and do not know one so perhaps someone else can confirm?

Well i need them for my flashlight mods, not enough space for 5mm. I'd be happy if i can find good warm (hi cri) like 3mm leds

These LEDs look nice for sure, but what about super short life time of 5mm LEDs (caused mainly by yellowing/burning plastic LED lens which is not resistant to heat like silicone)?

Most 5mm LEDs are rated ~20mA max. because of bad cooling and plastic lens burning problem. Many will drive these at much higher current, what is expected lifetime in those cases?

Thanks for that info led4power, I did not know that. The graph is very convincing, and overdriving 5mm leds makes it much worse. Not that lifetime matters greatly for what we hobbyists do here, my Nitecore Tube is used for 3 seconds once a day to look into the letterbox, but if we do serious builds for Nasa :wink: it does matter a lot.

I don’t have data for this particular LEDs, but a very old “fade test” data from CPF do suggest that a really well-made 5mm LEDs (radioshack’s) might happily last 50k hrs at 30ma.

For Nichia-tier LEDs, they would last ~5000 hrs at 30 ma (at L70 a.k.a. leds considered “failed” when the brightness drops below 70%)

The thread also mentioned that, LED lifespan increases 4x for every halved currents.

For these LEDs though (which is now known to be more efficient than Yuji’s and probably many standard 5mm LEDs), my educated guess would be at least ~4000 hrs at 30ma/ ~1000 hrs at 60ma L70. For occasional usage (i.e. 1 hours/day) that will take years until the degradation becomes apparent.

@rngwn

Got my package. :smiley: Wow that was fast. :+1:
Thank you very much. :beer:
Will have to find some time to play with them….

Got a notice from the post office in my mailbox yesterday

I have no idea why that time they droped a notice in the mailbox instead of the parcel like for the previous leds but i was lucky enough to be able to go there today (as i am usually working during opening hours) and take the parcel.
It looks like it was opened (customs ?) but everything is fine and i am happy with the leds :)


Last shipping update on mine, according to USPS is that it departed “SUVARNABHUMI MAIL CENTRE (SMC), THAILAND” on November 1st. No idea where it went from there.

@David - There are two possibilities:

- The shipment is on the queue to be loaded on the airplane at SMC (which will then head to the States).

  • The shipment has already landed at LA or JFK (or Honolulu if shipped to Hawaii), but is still being unloaded from the warehouse to be scanned.

Once it’s scanned by USPS it will appear as “Processed through facility” at either LA or ISC NY before heading to the customs.

Whatever case it will be, once it shows processed at SMC, it will usually take 3-10 days to appear in the USPS’s tracking as arrived in U.S (in the case of Airmail/ePacket during non-seasonal period).

WOW, C01 light has hope again?

Yes! Please! :crown: :+1:

Yeah!!!

Red 3400K, Blue 5800K. I missed the cw blue C01 and got a red one instead. Plus there are never enough warm white flashlights in a houshold.


(WB: 5000K)

See what those LEDs made me doing out of frustration about not getting C01’s?

(sorry for picture spaming from my side :blush: )

Edit: And don’t forget Jos’ request for hosts :smiley:

Is it possible to get these in 2200-2700K too? I have a lot of LED candles that I want to change out the LEDs on. Could possibly do a group buy if others are interested.

Mine arrived today! Thanks again rngwn! I’m hoping to put some of them to use soon!