Test of a Luminus SST-20-W 3000K 95CRI led

Thnx Djozz! Nice numbers and was looking for some 3kK emitters. Ordered some to try.

That is the correct link, Kaidomain left out the CRI number in the description.

Nice! :sunglasses: :+1:

Thanks for testing!

Thanks for the hard work mate. How does your standard SST-20 perform are they any good?

I have built a Convoy S9 shorty with this led. Current 160mA/880mA/1.85A, output on high 350 lumen. That makes the efficiency of this flashlight on highest setting about 50 lm/W which is not bad for a light this warm and high CRI.

Important for the performance of this high CRI SST-20 is how the beam looks like and how the tint/CRI is affected by the (OP-)reflector and lens (the lens of the S9 does not seem to be AR coated, which is nice for very high CRI builds)

The beam is a beauty, I say 219B-quality:

The light quality in the hotspot:

The light quality halfway the spill:

So compared to the bare led, in such a build you loose a small bit of CRI and the rosiness is a bit less, in fact the hotspot ended up almost on top of the Black Body Line. If you really want to retain the rosiness of the bare led you need to use this led in an aspheric lens flashlight.

That looks great with only a little tint shift. I also briefly tested the cool white SST-20 and the beam looked nice and even cool white with a S2+ sized OP reflector.

edit: I like how the Gossen tells you all the important details right on the screen!

I’m sorry for not showing the IES TM-30-15 data, this way of capturing the limited CRI data from screen is quick for me :innocent: and already shows a lot of what is going on.

So do I, because of my lack of knowledge and interest in computers and automation, led testing and doing the write-up is a quite tedious job for me, at least the new addition of some tint/CRI information is very quick this way.

Are you saying that you’re not paid for spending hours doing this??

Not yet that i know, of I have four of the LH351B 3000K high CRI LEDs in a lantern prototype for testing, but have not got any of the LH351D series yet. These SST-20 3000K seems to be a good LED to test too.

Thank you djozz for your time to make this testes, it is really very important to us

Question is sst-20 a 5 watt emitter like the XP-G2 or 10w like the XP-L ?

Sorry i am confused

This led fits 100% in the XP category: same footprint, same die-size, even the same current capability so about the same wattage. Only the voltage is, like most newer leds, lower than the XP-G2, in fact very close to the XP-G3.

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So using reflector dropped it from 9090 to 9070. Would using TIR better preserve the CRI and tint?
Anyone know if this triple is the 95CRI version? Might be a good drop in for S3+, Wuben TO10R, or upcoming FW3A.
http://kaidomain.com/Triple-SST-20-LED-Emitter-with-20mm-x-1mm-Copper-PCB-Parallel-w-optics?search=sst-20

Thanks for the testing :+1: :beer:

If you round off correctly, in this Nichia terminology it would go from 9790 to 9680, sounds a bit less dramatic.

A TIR kind of makes a blend of what in a reflector light goes to the hotspot and the spill so the result could be somewhere in between the bare led and the reflector hotspot, who knows. But to know what really happens, I’m planning an E2L with this led (will not start that until a week from now), I can measure it by then.
Btw, in my taste a hotspot tint on top of the BBL is excellent!

If you choose the 3000K leds for the KD triple it should be this led, they have no other 3000K SST-20 listed, and actually AFAIK another type 3000K SST-20 does not exist has not been seen around yet. Mind that that KD triple board is not compatible with Carclo optics, only with the in-house KD optic that is sold together with the board.

If only I could get the 4000k version of this LED.

There’s literally no other source of SST-20s except for Kaidomain.

Do you know if this optic is still the same as a few years back? I tried it once but it had a lot of artifacts.

No I don’t. I bought one more than a year ago and have never used it.

Thanks for the clarification.