Maybe you know, maybe you dont know, but and LED is not sold just with the specification "CREE"
Model nname is required (XP-E, XP-G2), Brightness bin (Q2, Q3.....R5), color temperature (5700K, 3000K) but preferably you would know the tint and know exactly for yourself what to expect (1A, 1B, 1T, 3C, 5B1)
CRI wouldn't be bad to know, depends on your intended use ( kitchen, outdoor light, basement light not all have the same importance)
Also just so you know these CREE LEDs are manufactured in China.
but seller give sweat to me that this led never com form china due to much solicitation from me to them they seller just say me these led montage in south Korea but the led chip come from American Cree company they have a reference buy sheet that korea seller sign that with american signet
what is data (Q2, Q3.....R5) or (1A, 1B, 1T, 3C, 5B1)?
i never see them in cree specification web site just a little explanation in their pdfs inconspicuous
excuse me some of keys my key keyboard some time malfunction and add more mistake to typing and thus i delete it and try to correct errors in typing and again type that
The thing is that you can buy for example a XP-L that has a 65CRI and 1T tint, yes a lot of brightness but the tint will be bad, CRI not even worth talking about at that tint (1T).
But for that maybe you would be looking into CXA LEDs rather than XP-L LEDs.
we must be wait until cree release new led with extra brighness and high cri and tint but cree just
point at one thing in each product or they cant gather all features in one led and show that serve as one end updated product like cri=99 or 300 lpw or high tint or ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
Back to the XP-L HI, I was supposed to have some coming but I received regular XP-L’s on accident. Those got returned so now back to waiting for the HI’s to be stocked again.
So Mouser has these in stock , has anyone actually built one yet? I am thinking of doing a C8 I have with the Comfychair inspired FET mod on a single 18650. Would it be worth it to run this on two 18350’s for the higher voltage with the correct driver?