XLamp XP-L High Intensity
Industry’s First High-Intensity LED
The XLamp® XP-L High-Intensity LED is the first of Cree’s new class of High-Intensity LEDs optimized to deliver maximum candela through secondary optics. The XP-L High-Intensity LED is the first single-die LED to deliver over 100,000 cd in a 4-degree beam with a 50-mm diameter optic at 10 W. Built on Cree’s breakthrough SC5 Technology™ Platform, the XP-L High-Intensity LED delivers more than double the candelas of the industry’s previous highest-performing single-die XP-L LED through the same optic. The new high-intensity LED offers a drop-in ready upgrade for XP-based luminaire designs, enabling manufacturers to achieve higher luminous intensity with minimal redesign to accelerate time to market.
SpecificationsVariationsDocumentation Data Sheet (pdf)
Size 3.45 x 3.45 mm
Maximum Drive Current 3 A
Maximum Power 10 W
Light Output up to 1095 lm at 10 W
Typical Forward Voltage 2.95 V at 1.05 A
Viewing Angle 115 °
Binning 85°C
ANSI
Thermal Resistance 2.5 °C/W
It looks like there is a just a thin layer of silicone, likely to protect the phosphor and bond wires. This might mean surface brightness will be some percentage lower than a typical dedome, but reliability and tint should be better.
The highest flux bin is cool white XP-L High Intensity V2, and they seem to have a very large span off colour temperatures from 5000K-8300K in the CW bin, and similar in the others.
There is no scare, look at the interior lights everyone uses 700mA and 1A for LEDs like XP-G2, everyone wants long life and efficiency (which is better at normal currents than any max rating or any so called over-driving). I guess flashlight world is quite different, anyway nowadays we have TN36 at 5A-6A per 1 XM-L.