Holy God, 160bux for one?!?
Anyhoo, it’s unlikely an LED would blow, so if you got a meter that has “diode check”, hit the LED with that both ways and see if it glows even faintly. If yes, it’s not the LED, but something else.
Could save yourself a bunch of time’n’trouble…
Good point Lightbringer. There is no LED damage visible.
BTW, it seems that bond wires are visible here, so now I stand by MascaratumB’s guess - it’s XP-L HD.
BTW, I see that they thermal interface material between the MCPCB and the body is quite excessive and possibly unevenly applied.
I wonder if LL put so much thermal paste or maybe they went with the safer option and used glue?
Cheers for all your help guys! I should have said the photo is of the undamaged led, the other one looks a lot more damaged! Im not sure if im looking at the right thing because as far as i can see, mouser.com sell them for $4.07 each?
https://nz.mouser.com/Search/Refine?Ntk=P_MarCom&Ntt=160102431
No, these are XP-L2. The next generation of the same LED. I would recommend against it because there’s a risk that your beam will be of uneven colour, shifting from the center towards outside.
I second this, do not use XP-L2, your beam quality will be… :disappointed: :confounded:
If you can find SST-20 or Samsung LH351D, as Agro mentioned, go for them.
Just don’t get the SST20 in cool white otherwise you’ll get a green tint on low