Best Hi-CRI LED suggestions please!

[Agro]

@hellokittyhk

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@BlueSwordM

If you want the absolute best color reproduction, you want to look at the SST-20 95CRI, which is available in 2700-3000-3500-4000k CCT options.

If you want to push even farther, get yourself this MCPCB:
https://www.virence.com/product-page/vs35sp36

And put these for sunlight like color reproduction:
https://www.virence.com/product-page/copy-of-nf2w757gt-f1

And for 2700k-4000k, get these instead:
https://www.virence.com/product-page/nf2w757gt-f1

I second this advice. Optisolis LEDs are as good as you can get, 98-99 CRI. But they are weak and you need quite a few to reach 1000 lm.
If using many Optisolis is not an option for you, my second suggestion would be COB, there are quite a few CRI98 ones available. But it’s not easy to use if a flashlight so if many Optisolis are not an option, this is likely not an option either….
The third suggestion would be SST-20.

I did mention that LED configuration is a non-issue, but with this magnitude it would actually be a lot of work that I don’t want to do
So yeah let’s say minimum 25 lumens typical outout per LED.

Highly considering the SST-20 now.

They can do much more than that. maukka has tested them up to 200 mA and they kept high CRI. They do well over 50 lm at that current.
They can be pushed much harder, even to 1A but whether they maintain CRI at that current is unknown.