More New Cree Goodness coming....

I didn’t look, and yes you are correct…

Mouser has them too , but yeah still cool white low CRI, sliced they could get closer to neutral white, and HI.

Great info, thanks all! I ordered a couple of xhp50.3 hi variants from kaidomain (90 cri 2700k and 5000k, and 80cri 4000k).

So what kind of currents can these handle? 18W in the 6V configuration (with a convoy 20mm xhp50.2 driver) seems like babying it. Hank’s b35am dm11 driver seems to give around 22W (6A measured at tailcap): that better. How about feeding it 30W?

I might have to plug one on one of my cheap variable buck drivers and visually gauge the point of visually diminishing returns.

Take what the XHP50.2 can handle, and use that as your guide.

Thank you. I was wondering if being domeless made a difference. Also, it also apparently has improved thermal conductivity, so the efficiency curve could could be a bit higher.

In any case, going off the 50.2 tests, it seems like 18W and 22W are reasonable.

Green AR coating is really effective for lowering the duv. XHP70.3 Hi 5000K 80cri from Kaidomain went from 0.0028 with purple AR coating to 0.0000 with green AR coating. No further modifications needed. Flashlight was Convoy M21B.

Nice. At which mode did you get the 0,0000 duv value? And is there a donut hole in the beam?

If I used 5 modes option in 12 group driver, mode 3 was 0.0001 and mode 4 0.0000. No donut hole thankfully. It seems I had a problem with reflow. Not all dies lit evenly.

I’m interested in how these ended up performing. The two similarly-binned HIs at Kaidomain are too green for me to use.

I have on 50G in M21B and with old AR coating it was greenish, with new AR coating it is neutral. DUV 0.0002

My second order of 4500K XHP50.3 HI from Mouser is unfortunately greener than the first, right at the edge of too green to use. 0.0033 in my test setup and a little lower in a light.

Got a couple of 4000k 70.3 90cri from kaidomain off aliexpress

Installed one safely in a dive torch and its exactly like turning on a household light.

Then I had to transfer the other to a specific pcb and I’m pretty sure I roasted it and it popped during electrical testing.

Now to consider buying more leds and upgrading my soldering and lack-of-real-hotplate situation.

newly released Element Cree XEG

Did you center the die on the MCPCB? Why are there gaps in the copper around the solder pads?

I installed and measured XHP50.3 HD (sliced) 80 CRI 4500K and XHP50.3 HI 90 CRI 4500K from mouser.

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I’ve been using a 3v 50.3 lately and thought I would try slicing the dome out of curiosity. Lowered the CCT from 5800 to 5000. The CRI went down (70 to 67) and the DUV went up (from 0.0021 to 0.0081).

It’s much less visually appealing now. More yellow/green. Oh well.

This is extremely surprising to me! Generally the green goes down when you slice, it doesn't quadruple! Got any pictures?

Indeed! I have a couple more on the way to retest. I’ll get picture this time around.

One thing I noticed while slicing the dome was the dome itself looked different than most emitter domes I’ve encountered. It almost had a refractive quality to it. Unfortunately it went flying across the shop into the abyss. Oh well. I’ll document it all with the next emitter I recieve.

I would absolutely love to see the pictures from your next test! Hopefully they will demonstrate the refractive quality you described.

The only negative dedome experience I've had was 3V XHP50.2, which turned green after dedome. It is not surprising to me because the phosphor pour is very different and extends way past the underlying blue chips, so any theory about dedoming a typical emitter (phosphor exactly over blue chip) goes out the window. Dicing it up (removing the excess phosphor past the blue chips) removed the green.

Your case surprises me because as far as I can tell, with the 3rd gen XHPs, the phosphor pour is exactly over the blue chips and does not extend beyond, so the phenomenon I described with the XHP50.2 should not be happening.

Green eggs and ham.