liquidretro is not accurate regarding the RRT-01:
“Nichia 219C at 90CRI”
nealsgadgets makes the same inaccurate claim:
Nichia 219C is 90+
I think both Neal and liquidretro were misled by the common assumption that Nichia = High CRI. And I dont think either of them has the tools, skills, or desire to recognize the difference between a Low CRI and High CRI Nichia LED… (I tried to educate liquidretro, but he chose to ignore the data I sent)
fwiw liquidretro runtime charts down show actual lumens… (same as selbuilt)
imo zeroair is better than selfbuilt, one reason is that zeroair runtime charts show actual lumens… I find this very helpful. zeroair recently added a spectrometer to his tool kit… now there is no chance he would fail to notice when a Nichia is Not High CRI. (he received a Low CRI 5000k 219c in one of his lights, and we were all very confused by the funky color… turned out to be another Low CRI Nichia…)
another great reviewer is pol77
he has tremendous modding skills, and posts a ton of pictures
he also has a very complete runtime data logger