Good wiki for Cree LEDs and latest available bins?

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Hi,

Haven’t kept up with the flashlight scene for a little while so I’m trying to catch up.

Is there a wiki somewhere with developments in the past couple of years? What are the latest bins available?

The wiki here has some good info though it’s a little dated.

http://flashlightwiki.com/Cree

Is a XP-G2 S5 available yet?

Thanks!

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I’m not aware of an XP-G2 S5 but the XP-G2 R5 is readily available if that’s what you were meaning to say.

Things in the emitter world are moving fast. The XP-L is another development not mentioned on the Wiki.

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BLF-member CRX has made a database with a lot of leds and other stuff, and he is keeping it up-to-date (wow, the XHP50/70 tests that I posted last week are already added!), the most widely used emitters are in there:

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Thanks for the link, it looks handy!

I was wondering about the bins listed though. For the XP-G2, it only goes up to R5.

But I’ve seen some links for the S2 bin. Does this mean those listings are fake?

http://www.kaidomain.com/product/details.S023027

http://www.led-tech.de/en/High-Power-LEDs-Cree/CREE-XP-Series/CREE-XP-G2-S2-on-Star-PCB-LT-2276_120_138.html

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Trusted sources carry S2 and S3, so they are likely real bins. Cree just doesn’t update the binning and labeling datasheet very often.

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Directly from the Cree datasheet, the S2 is currently the max bin.

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Yet Cutter has S3. Typically the datasheets lag behind, especially when Cree can’t fulfill large orders for whatever reason.

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I totally agree, just wanted to show what Cree had listed, it at least verified the legitimacy of the S2.

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Gotcha, and fair enough. Clearly I either didn’t know they’d updated the datasheet with S2 or I forgot. Actually I now see that the latest XP- series B/L datasheet has S3 listed! But no order codes for S3.

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Cool, thanks for the info!

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I bought a few XPG2 S2 1D and XPG2 S3 3C from ios which are very impressive, as rated: S2 558-595 lumen at 1.5amp and the S3 595-625 lumen at 1.5amp. Almost catching the old xml output. The latest xml2s and xpls now put out 1200+ lumen at 3amp . I put a xpg2 s2 1d[ dedomed] in my sunwayman t20cs for [originally xml 650lmn] 600 otf lumen and 55kcd and my ea4 improved massively at 1100 otf lumen and 32kcd[XPL V6 2C] both stock drivers on copper noctigons. If you have any older lights these new gen crees offer an easy, effective [ some led swaps are harder than others] upgrade to an old favourite.