Bocian
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Lexel, you explain the rules that are obvious to me. Ordering mid and low power LEDs is different comparing to high power diodes (XPL, XHP…). For high-power diodes you gave as an example, we can easily buy a carefully selected, large amount of bins. But for the smaller ones, you usually buy diodes from a very wide bin range. I meant more about this situation: I open the Osram GW QSLM31.QM, data sheet and see on the first page: CRI 90+, Luminous Flux: typ. 31 lm @ 3000 K, Luminous efficacy: typ. 173 lm/W @ 3000 K for 65mA current. Then I see that the bin ranges for this option are very wide: 28.5 … 43.5 lm. I see 12 flux bin codes from the lowest GV (25,5lm-27lm) to the highest HV (42-43,5lm). So I think OK if 31lm is typical so I should find with no problem bin H2 (30-31,5lm). That should be ~31lm and 173lm/W (cold junction). I open google, try to find it and all I see (at Mouser, Digikey, RS-online) is only bin ranges (very wide from H1-HV - 28,5lm-43,5lm). Nobody will go to the warehouse to select manually most attractive rollers. And they can be very diverse (the range is wide). That is why it is a real lottery about low and medium power diodes. I am not a great producer who can negotiate and require from the manufacturer diodes with strict parameters (and they usually do not do it because it raises the price very much). It’s more like hobby production/modding 