Stainless light are not great with heat and the pill is small, so don’t expect too much for runtimes, it shouldn’t burn the LED I have only ever had that happen when not using a DTP board and or over driving the LED.
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Stainless/Titanium shelf lights are also very dangerous as the LED is not thermally coupled well to the driver. Pill lights have a brass connection between LED and driver which makes them a lot less likely to fry the LED.
Of course there are plenty of stainless and titanium lights which operate just fine without any issues. And lights with hollow pills. And lights with no pill at all, and no MCPCB, just a PCB floating in the air, and even those do just fine. Why? Because there are more factors at play than merely “titanium / stainless lights bad.” If you aren’t testing your thermal assumptions, all you’ve got is an assumption and it’s probably wrong.
Test an LED on an MCPCB attached to nothing and you may be surprised at how much output it can sustain.
It looks good in appearance, very tempting. Thanks for the review.
For the record, with 8A boost driver, within 15 seconds the head is hot to touch. Within one
minute it can melt your skin. Its the hottest running light I own.
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