I’m fairly sure there are at least a few Cree employees lurking here - I’ve spoken to one of them that I randomly ran into at a bar. I know of one fairly regular poster who works (or worked?) there (never met him in person). Cree is based in the area where I live, so I have some very minor connections (my parents are neighbors/friends with one of the executives - before you ask, I have zero pull. Believe me, I’ve tried.).
It’s probably a decent guess that some of the folks with Raleigh/Durham/Cary/Apex NC in their Location could potentially work for Cree. I can’t imagine there’d be that many flashaholics in one town that don’t in some way work in the industry. I’m an outlier — I work in commercial real estate.
But yeah, fairly safe assumption that some of the folks there are at least aware of BLF.
Does Cree even have a tint bin for that? Tints starting with ‘9’ or ‘10’, perhaps?
/me looks at the data sheets…
Okay, they have a special group of extra-yellow tint bins… so you want an AA3 bin? That sounds painful to look at. Anything warmer than ~3500K makes my eyes bug out.
I just noticed that the bond wires look different somehow……fatter maybe, fingers crossed they are because we are totally bondwire limited when we overdrive the XM-L2/XP-L class Cree emitters.
But it could just be a really crappy picture
I would bet they will have lower lux performance than their de domed brothers but with nicer tint of course. This silicone looks about 0,6mm thick so it could have slightly bigger dome projection(but not much).
Those bond wires look pretty beefy...I have a sneaking suspicion that these are going to be incredible but only available for a short run. Better buy all that you can now once their available.. I'm thinking of ways to keep those bond wires cool so they can handle additional current...
From the datasheet measurements it should be ~0.35mm. See my post #43.
And it may actually be less than 0.35mm. From looking at other datasheets (like XP-G2) 0.65mm appears to only be for the substrate (not including the die + phosphor thickness).
