Cree changed production process for XP-G2 emitters!

One macro shot tells more than 1000 of words. Very easy to detect them…

Can you report some kcd values of your Courui with S3 2B? Yes it probably is brighter than new S4 2B but even old R5 2B is brighter than it.

Old and better version of S4 2B is different animal.

I will quote myself:

“Very simple to detect them by dot method.

Old has around 40 visible dots on emitter while New has more than double number of mentioned dots and they are very hard detectable.

Yes, this is the old batch.
From the left to right: XP-G3 S5 2A (May 2016), XP-G2 S4 2B (Mar 2016) and XP-G2 S3 2B (Dec 2014).
(sorry for dirty LED doom surface as they are so small to handle with).

Very nice photo.

Everyone can see difference.

I just got a new style XP-G2 S4 2B from Richard. Tested it in an X6 with a fresh 30Q and got 4.05A and 52,700cd with dome on. Then I gas dedomed it and got 4.2A with a fresh 30Q and 98,800cd. The focus may not have been perfect when dedomed. With dome on the yellow phosphor filled the reflector at arm’s length. When dedomed the very outer part of the reflector was not filled with yellow. I think I might need to file the spacer down a bit, but I didn’t fiddle much with it. The tint seemed similar to the old S4 2B.

This performance is pretty close to the old style. Comparing to other peoples results, it seems like there is some variation in Vf for these. Maybe there is not much reason to be sad after all.

Also, I tested an XP-G3 S5 3A I got from Richard in the X6. With a fresh 30Q, I got 6.7A and 58,600cd, with dome.

Well when you have “only” 100 kcd performing light you will certainly not feel those 30 or more % performance drop. That should be 30kcd max performance difference.

But deduct 30% from 250 kcd light and that should be 75 kcd difference.

In a 1504 (around 500 kcd rated with old xp-g2 s4 2b ) that will be 150kcd

etc…

So IMHO there is really a reason to be sad because instead of better performing emitters in 2016 we got… What we got? Nothing… Even with XP-G3…

So I was going through some old flashlight parts, and I found 2 (apparently) coveted XP-G2 S4 2B’s on 20mm Noctigon’s that are the “old” style. :beer: Looks like I’ll have to hang onto these puppies until I find the right build for them.

I’ve been trying to keep up with this thread, but have slacked off for the past few weeks. Is it correct to assume that the new XP-G3’s do not out throw the “old” XM-G2 S4’s when dedomed? I was considering trying my hand at dedoming a G3, but some people say they do, others say they don’t.

Stick with proven thing for your thrower :slight_smile:

Read this: Cree XP-G3, testing a S5 3A emitter - #79 by luminarium_iaculator

Not at all, even completery clean sliced or dedomed perfectly the new G3 has lesser performance that the old G2s, like….60% lower or more

I dedomed like 20 of the new G3s, have several nearly perfect ones, the best one gave 213cds in B158, the new S4 2B ( at 4.8 amps) 260k and an old style S4 2B ( at 4.6ams) 330k cds

Ofc G3s could change in the future, there might be newer revisions with a new core dimmentions

This confirms one of mine theory I talked into XP-G3 thread and that was about neatly sliced XP-G3 vs de domed G3 emitter where I claimed that there should not be great difference between this methods.

So sliced(neatly sliced as low sliced as possible) vs de domed = very low advantage onto pure de domed one.

Indeed, slicing is needed especialy in b158 look loke hosts where ppl usualy swap the emitter/driver pill on demand…with an IR or red/green for instance

Ofc you can always use a HI in those……IF they dont die that fast as they do :)…especialy those tints with lower K rate( 4500 and under.
By default they are OK though…yet after 5amps the sillicone layer near the bond wires starts burning or they just suddenly die

Well since S4 2C is only available in “new improved version” I played a little with remaining old XP-G2 S2 1A emitters…

And guess what?

One of them hit 5.8A!(checked several times with pause on unmistakable Uni-t clamp meter) Angry blue appeared on half of emitter (I did not fried it… just a second or two), and that is something I never saw with XP-G2 emitters… Samsung 30Q used.

Then I had to change Djozz FET driver bypassed spring for original UF 1503 high resistance spring (reading 5.4A after), and unsolder tail switch bypass wire, and angry blue disappeared for 200 kcd results in UF1503( not bad but nothing special).

First time I had to enhance resistance on Djozz FET drivers… I don’t know why but it was funny to me :laughing: Am I nerd? :slight_smile:

What I know now that Djozz FET driver takes out maximum out of LED and battery if done properly (filled vias on AK-47 + bypass from that vias to top of the chosen driver spring(FT carobronze) gives direct + contact with battery and led)

has anyone tested those : http://intl-outdoor.com/noctigon-xp16-v2-mcpcb-cree-xpg2-s3-3d-led-p-846.html if they are old style ?

If the reel information picture is correct and updated: the package date of the S3 3D is april2015, while the S4 2B (that is currently new style at intl-outdoor) has an earlier packaging date of februari 2015.

Djozz,

Hope you’ll test and find even better emitter than old style G2 S4 2B

I can do that no better than anyone else: if the led has the old-style appearance, it will have the old-style throw increase upon dedoming, cooler leds a bit more improvement than warmer leds.

I actually looking forward on your future findings of emitter that will be better for throw than old series of g2 emitters.

Maybe other LED manufacturers like Osram, Philips, Samsung etc. can make something good.

Osram for example has the best and the brightest 850NM and 940NM led on the market. So they are capable of making something good for sure.

Osram’s top die illuminance led is the 3rd gen. Oslon Square, FmC has gone at great length trying to dedome it and checking throw, without getting close to the old style S4 2B.

The 3rd gen Oslon’s came very close (~7%), & would be a suitable replacement, if they could be easily dedomed.

I recently came across these, which appear to be binned higher that the 3rd gen’s that we have tested.

I have bought a small quantity to test, but they pose the same dedoming problem.

I remembered that wrong, sorry, so it is close.
Thanks for the good work, FmC !

I am looking forward to see this one in action… Neatly slice should also be good method.

Please keep us informed :slight_smile:

And you Djozz of corse :wink: