OK i have received about 30 lights with LB leds in them. This includes multiple with more then 1 LED.
Say that I have 50 LB emitters.
Some of them are having a really nice tint.
Maukka did test 1 of them
I have two identical of those that came in the same light.
Interestingly, this lght was not all that cheap, about $20,-
The a SK68 clone, bought 2 from same seller, 1 emits ugly blue, the other real nice warm white, these were dirt cheap.
All my SRKs came with LB, 1 of them with 3 emitters has a nice color, the rest blueish
To recap:
50 emitters
3 with an excellent tint
3 with a good tint.
The 2 are interesting, since that light was not so cheap, and they both have the same tint is almost seems like LB is capable of making same type of leds, and not just bad leds wth a chance of roughly 10% in geting a nice tint.
I would like to see them be proud, make better ones and the producers of the light that use them just be honest and stop printing CREE on the side and adding CREE to the specs.
Things are changing, long ago the USA was known for blatant and cbad quality copies, most of us remember Japan as a cheap copy machine, now it is China,
Made in the USA now means quality, made in Japan also.
And I bet n our lifetime we will see the rise of a new cheap copy country (maybe India or even an Afrian country) and China becoming more and more real quality.
And back ontopic, if I would see a flashlight for sale with interesting looks and could choose between Cree xml cold white or LB neutral white I would go for LB.
If only manufacterer would be honest about using them I see little to no problems they do. Maybe if they are being advertised with LB start to be proud and feels the need to atually up the prcess and produce better quality.
On a sidenote, we are aware of changes and that is why we probably are going to choose LEDs with the 3535 footprint for out Q8 project (link in my sig) because it is very popular and who knows what candy will come out in a year, from other brands then just Cree.