If you find any other good emitters please post them. I looked through XP-L HD’s, Tom found the XP-G3’s. I didn’t see any good bins of XP-L HI or XHP35, most were back-ordered. I didn’t look for XM-L2 or other XHP’s
Wow, I must have done better then I thought on those Texas Avenger drivers, It seems I gave them the breath of life! Or artificial intelligence anyways lol.
I kept meaning to post a thread on this but never got around to it. It is a great way to order some driver components without the silly digikey shipping costs.
I have a big shopping cart I have been putting together there, I keep waiting to actually place the order until I have everything but I keep finding more.
I used 2x of these and 2x of the 5700k in an S41 and it gives an amazing tint and color rendition (well, until I dedomed one of the emitters by mistake).
They are an inexpensive small 3 x 1.4mm SMT LED with no focusing lens. The ones I got are slightly cool in color 5000K but still have a CRI of 85, the light looks very crisp and clean. They are a low power LED like a 5mm but are fairly efficient. The only down side I have found with them is the packaging material has way to low of a melting point. It makes it difficult to hand solder them as the packaging quickly turns to a melted blob. Best luck has been with using solder paste and making sure the LED is anchored so that it does not attach it’s self to the soldering iron tip like small SMT components like to do.
I mainly got them for adding white back light to things and making replacement automotive interior light bulbs.
Hey TA if you are getting driver components, would you mind sharing your cart? I found the FETs I need and Attiny25’s but I’m having trouble with reverse polarity diodes? I prefer the SOD-323 package because that’s what I’ve put on my drivers.
Which Tiny25’s are you getting. I was having trouble figuring out which ones would work as there are so many model numbers with no data that I could find explaining the difference.
For some reason it is not pulling up my past orders, although pretty sure I just copy/pasted the model number from digikey into arrow and it came up with the diode.