I've bought from Cutter before but not since their new website. I just bought 2 with free shipping, but this can't be right - their shipping was always big $$$ from AU, and std shipping would be ~$10. We'll see what happens.
Looking at the datasheet, it's 2.9V at 6 amps, and maybe that's 1800-2000 lumens I'm guessing? If so, I'd think you could get 2500 lumens out of one on a FET driver, maybe 8-9 amps? The tint is 1D though - 6500K, but decent bin at J4.
Yeah it was crazy what they wanted for shipping back then, but you chose Free shipping, I seen that, I went with what came up at check out, seemed reasonable…so you might get yours this time next year….
Yea, but I'm one of those that complained bout their shipping costs. It's not bad if your order is big enough, but for a $10 order, another $12 is a bit steep. Boy, looked around their site just now and nothing else I could find of interest. Their LED selection seems dated, guess because no Samsungs, Luminus, Luxeon, only 1 XHP70.2, etc.
Nice, just bought a few. I did not think cree would ever make a 3V XHP. I just hope there are not too many premature failures like I’ve seen with the 6V XHP50.2.
I’m thinking of putting one (sliced) in a D1S or GT mini.
Can anyone confirm what mcpcb is shipped. The description and picture are that of a “XHP50 on 20mm Star TPAD MCPCB” yet further along that same line is 16mm round. Also, when added to the cart “COLOUR BINS:
1D (6250 KELVIN) PCB SIZE: 16MM
LED MOUNTING OPTIONS:
ROUND PCB”
lol its 3am here give it a few hours maybe in like 7 hours they will be in. Cutter is also a member here on BLF.
I have made many orders at Cutter but shipping gets me every time its $12 AUD from Melbourne where they are to Sydney. Makes me cry considering i can get a flight for like $60 lol.
I hear you. The live chat says “We’re Online!” and I’m anxious these will all got bought up. It has been so long since I bought from Cutter my login doesn’t work. I ended up buying the bare led without the login.
As a side note, I’ve got some interesting stuff from down under. Look familiar?
I would hope to get 16A into it with a good low IR cell and FET driver. From Texas Ace’s test of the 6V XHP50.2, at 8A, or 4A per die, the voltage is 6.78V. So with all dies in parallel it should be about 3.39V at 4A per die, or 16A total. So this should be doable if the total circuit resistance (including cell) is 50 mOhms.
welight - thanx for posting here! I ordered qty 2 bare w/free shipping. could you explain what shipping service is used? How long approx. to the US?
EasyB - didn't think bout 16A, but it all makes sense. Getting 4000-5000 lumens from 1 LED and 1 cell with one of our simple FET drivers is pretty cool! Basically the mod could be done as a simple LED swap to an existing XM-L2 FET light we have now, just a lot more heat.