I managed to order one of the XHP70 emitters from DigiKey.
Now I’m trying to figure out where to get a sink pad. Ideally, since I’m in Canada, I’m looking for a “shipped free” pad - which generally takes me to eBay first.
I’m scratching my head trying to figure out what has the same pad footprint as the XHP70. It seems like XML is too small and MTG2 is too big.
The two marked with X appear damaged maybe. I can see some scratches that traverse the full pad that might be at issue, Im not sure what issue that creates, but its the only thing they both have i common that i did not notice on the unmarked ones. I think DB was willing to part with some for sale/trade or whatever (there was a minimum order quantity from the source IIRC) and maybe he just wants to make sure he doesnt send those ones by mistake?
SinkPAD determined that those 2 were not up to their specs, so they cut em with a box knife and marked the X on em. I tested em with my DMM and they’re fine. I was told they shouldn’t be, but continuity or lack thereof showed them to be just fine. Beats me.
I would probably have put one sheet of 15 in a small frame and hung em on the wall if they’d left the X off and not cut em up.
Good thing I have nothing better to do than moniter these pages 24/7! I nabbed one for $12.32 total. Aluminum star and free shipping. I already have a Noctigon to use.
Yep, they will start showing up all over, but everyone's making a killing on the price, just like the MT-G2. We probably should have just kept dissing these leds, so the price would have been lower. I hope KD carries some 5000k for a lower price, like they did with the MT-G2.
Well tbh, I’m not falling over myself to pick one up yet.
I’m still not exactly convinced by the multi-die stuff, no matter how many lumens they chuck. Not to mention as the colour temp approaches that of the mt-g2 the total output gain doesn’t seem quite so fantastic anymore…but that’s just me.