Big to do with mine, but I haven't got time to show and tell right now. Short version, it works on an XM-L2 star, with a little help, but the MT-G2 star was a disaster. Bright as hell direct drive, but puts out less heat than an MT-G2. Just my thoughts. Been doing this long enough to tell that the heat sink wasn't getting as hot as it does with the MT-G2 on DD. Don't have any drivers to hook it up to, so I have to wait a couple weeks, but in a 50mm deep reflector, it looked great. No dark areas, but way too cool white for me. I will wait for some 5000k or 5700k ones before doing any more. That and some Maxtoch 26mm or 30mm stars as well as a good driver for them. Hopefully someone will finally come up with a dedicated flexible amperage driver for our 6v leds, now that there are more versions out.
Quick shot. Set the head over the led. Bottom of the reflector just about even or a hair lower than the substrate level. Stuff was in the way of a good shot. No time, gotta go.
My thoughts too, but it fits under one reflector/lens like one emitter, so it counts as one for our purposes. I’m impressed. Looking at the description on Mouser didn’t impress me. But, getting 6006 lumens from ‘one’ emitter does! Thanks, Dale!
Thanks for the early tests, certainly impressive output!
Beam profile looks a tad donuty but hard to tell from that photo as to what it would look like in real life. Is that a smooth reflector?
Nice Justin, now I have to work on mine some more to focus the beam properly as you have there.
I knew going in that it would be too high in the reflector. I was making the light for an MT-G2 when you pointed this emitter out. Having to modify the 31mm mcpcb to accept this larger footprint brought it up too much. I need to set it down at least a mm, maybe 2.
Considering it was a hurry up thing, I think you could focus to get rid of it. That was at 4’ and yes, there’s a hint if a darl spot, but no worse than an MT-G2 does. The reflector is OP. I have no idea how a SMO reflector will do. I think once I get one into a Mag 2D, with the LED reflector and adjustment possibilities of the head, I can probably get it better, but time will tell.
I used .002" shim stock to make wider contacts and reflowed them on. Then I put some solder paste on the led and reflowed it on.
Way too blue for my taste, but once I put the reflector on it didn't look all that bad.
I think the dark spot can be removed with adjustment, but that's just white wall hunting. You will never see it out in the real world, unless your real world is white walls.