I guess he meant that it’s wasteful to drive such expensive emitter without precise current control. If you spend this much, it’s worth to spend some extra and really get the best of it.
Though in this case that “some” is actually large.
Non of my Lambda lights used anything like Lexel’s driver. Most of those that used the Luminous 90s were $70-90 emitters. Never had any burn up. But they best they could manage was 13-16A though and that is running on 4c or 4d cells. So I just wonder if it’s difficult just to get up to 40A without getting to the point where you get way beyond that.
High Vf? 3.47V at 20A is high?
Divide it between 4 strong batteries and they’ll keep 4.15V.
This leaves us with 35 mOhm resistance in everything between LED and battery, I’ve seen report of resistances as low as 10 mOhm.
I’d expect 30A to be easy for our masters (15 mOhm).
With 8 batteries and 10 mOhm host there would be over 35A.
But Vinh reported getting just 20A. So something doesn’t add up.
LEDs can be driven past the recommended manufacturer specifications.
This is what enthusiasts do and is the entire point of this topic, if you even read the first post.
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You forget that I live in Greece,so there are some thousands of miles between me and Vinh,plus the Greek Customs which are very strict, charging much money.Also,I read that Vinh drives the led to 20A,so I don’t know if it is good for me to pay much for little.
If I see that some guy goes to the transfer, with for example a Lexel driver,and I see some photos of this,then I can tell a Greek modder, giorgoskok, and a BLF member as well,to make the job for me. He has upgraded many lights for me till now very well.
Thank you anyway for your response.
Thanks to Web Plot Digitizer I finally reverse-engineered the chart from the Xandre’s test and got some efficacy estimations.
125 lm/W at 700 lm
110 lm/W at 1400 lm
85 lm/W at 2800 lm
58.5 lm/W at 4650 lm (this one is actually provided directly, not reversed)
32 lm/W at 5650 lm
Yeah, it was not designed for efficiency like a Prius car. This is a straight up hot rod. A twin turbo hemi type emitter designed to battle HID bulbs. Lol
I did calculate it for dedomed SST-40. It was good. This one is better thermally. And factory flat instead of hand-sliced. And much costlier which enables a variety of improvements.
Despite that - it’s much less efficient……