Second Generation Silver Plated High Current Beryllium Copper Springs and 95+CRI SST20!

PayPal sent. Thanks for organizing this. I look forward to checking out these springs in person.

@bhstinger, you can still enter for the SST-20 4000k and LH351D 4000k.

Just need to find a good source of them with great tints…

I still haven’t found anything with a confirmed tint bin.

Thanks Blue. Terrific effort for us all here. :beer:

I haven’t received a PM yet for pmnt for my 100 springs. Are they going out in waves and I just haven’t came up in the order yet or was I missed?

Yeah, I’m doing 2 waves of 15 people per day, one during the morning, and one during the evening.

You are on track for the 2nd wave today.

Cool, figured as much (and in the mean time I managed to score a few of your springs from a fellow modder for use now) but I can’t wait to stock up and not have to worry for a little bit!

Yeah.

So, I wasn’t able to find a source of good tinted SST-20 4000k, so had to delay it, along with the LH351D :cry:

Only the springs, SST-20 3500k and 3000k will be available for this groupbuy

Hey guys, if you’re pp mobile app is forcing you to send pmnt in CA$ just switch to PayPal on your browser, choose goods & services and it’ll default to sending USD!

Thanks for the updates and all the effort you are putting into this!

It will be worth the wait for the right tint bins.

Thanks Blue, payment sent…. :beer:

I’ve sent everybody on the list a PM in less than 2 days this time.

Now, we just have to wait until I can make the final order for the springs February 19th, since they take more time to make+ship than 2 day shipping LEDs.

PP sent

PP sent!

Excellent. Here are the final specifications:

Large spring:
Spring upper diameter: 6,00mm
Spring base diameter: 9mm
Spring thickness: 1,0mm
Spring height: 12,00mm
Total number of coils: 4
Plating: Silver electroplating

Small spring:
Spring upper diameter: 4,00mm
Spring base diameter: 5,5mm
Spring thickness: 0,8mm
Spring height: 10,50mm
Total number of coils: 5
Plating: Silver electroplating

The springs have been ordered.

Will post updates as they come.

Wow I didn’t know the springs knew how to post on a forum! :smiley:

Yeah you’re right.

The springs have become so advanced that they’ve become sentient :slight_smile:

But seriously, with a silver plating and removing a coil from the large spring(which will increase the plastic deformation from 0,9mm to 1,3mm instead), we may be able to get even higher current from the dual spring array.

I’m hoping it makes a noticeable improvement in my BLF Q8 performance. I’ve made no other mods, but I’m using nice cells. I’m thinking about changing emitters to HI for a little bit more throw like the Sofirn Q8 but not sure of that yet.

I received my “early” 3500K SST20 leds finally. The mail went wrong and they came back to Blue and he re-sent them.

I reflowed one on a 16mm DTP board and frankly, I’m not impressed. I measured tints at 350mA but other currents do not significantly improve things. The CRI is perfectly fine (over 95CRI in all measurements) but the tints are not below the BBL but in most builds will be clearly above it.

Bare led measured straight from above is ok:

Same led measured at 60 degrees to the side:

Same led with small OP reflector on top (from an S9), the hotspot was measured:

So there is nothing rosy to measure, also when inspecting the beam from the S9 reflector by eye, I see the all too common tint that hints towards yellow/green instead to rosy. And as usual it is a fine tint by itself but when compared next to a 3500K 92CRI Nichia 219C beam it loses out bigtime.

This matches my observations of the 3000K from Hank. Either there are huge variations in the emitters or the manufacturer’s binning is wrong. Minus green filters make the tint much more acceptable (to me) and is the only thing keeping me from swapping them out for XPL-HIs or 219Cs. It’s a shame the tints tend towards yellow/green because I think they’re in a sweet spot of being relatively low price with high CRI and good throw.