LED test / review - Luminus SFT-90 J7 BA (KD sample, 6500 K 70 CRI)

I could have posted this message in several places/topics, but given this question mainly revolves around the characteristics of the SFT-90, this seems be logical place.

I saw someone mentioned the idea of putting the SFT-90 in a Convoy M21B. He did that with the 22mm/12A FET driver (which he got up to 16 amps), instead of the 20A buck driver, given the high(er) Vf of the SFT-90. That higher Vf is also mentioned by @koef3 in his review.

Now is the current bin that Simon offers a different bin (J9) than the J7 bin as tested by Koef, with a noticable improvement in Flux, according to the datasheet that Simon provides: https://convoylight.com/uploads/72553/cart/resources/20250309/e86f70dafa28d220592767d542ab1865.pdf

The KD sample tested by Koef hasn’t listed which Vf bin it is (or I missed it), but the Simon’s bin is a VL bin (3.1-3.3V).

The goal of the M21B/SFT-90 build would be just stupid power/output, as much as possible. Efficiency etc. isn’t important, because the M21B can’t sustain it anyway.

What would be my best choice of getting the most out of the SFT-90 (with the high Vf): the 20A buckdriver or the FET driver with some mods (spring bypasses, thick as possible wires to LED), to push it at least to 15A (or more).

All of this doesn’t need to make sense, I just want to make an as ‘stupid as possible’ M21B with the SFT-90! :grin:

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Will there be a 4000-4500k version?

Nice LED but mine was finally DOA or I killed it somehow. No one will ever know because I didn’t checked it before reflowing…