It still has the cone of light (115°), coming from a wee (less wee than an XP-G, granted) flat plate. Still not the kind of light source the Parabolic reflector was designed to accommodate. Still a dirty kludge with no real hope except to get more people to notice we don’t have any decent reflectors for LEDs yet. At least these folders get out of the way when you’re not using them. And it’s still possible to recurve them to catch more of the main light output…
I still wonder how hard it would be to grow an LED on a ball, instead of a flat plate…
Or why Cree, etc. can’t hire Engineers to design some way to make their LEDs work right. And no, I don’t mean TIRs, although they do seem more likely to provide Joy ATM… But TIRs can’t replace all the missing spectrum.
Meanwhile, I’m learning to ignore the “Rotten Cat Urine Green” ring, separating the “NW” (“NonWhite”) or “CW” (“ColoredWhite”) or “WW” (“WannabeWhite”) light from the Lurid Lavender outer ring… Not learning it well, but slowly realizing it does no good to worry over it. Until it starts friggin BLINKING…
Laugh with me, light lovers, so we don’t go mad screaming…
Or (since this is the Budget Light Forum, not the Budget LED Forum…) we could go back to Thomas Edison’s way, the burning wire. That still works fine.