SKV89
August 13, 2018, 3:09am
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ToyKeeper:
Hmm, that worries me a little. I tried 3xLH351D 5000K 80CRI and found it also looks greenish. I figured the 90CRI ones wouldn’t have that issue though.
Maybe I’m just not running it at a high enough power to get good tint. Djozz noted the LH351D tends to get a bit green at low power, and most of the time I’m using only the 1x7135 power channel on a triple or a quad. So it’s 87 to 117 mA per emitter, and that might be low enough for the green effect. Not sure.
Most emitters are more white when running at higher power levels… but the range I care most about is under 150 lumens. And on a triple or quad, that’s only 40 or 50 lumens per emitter. So I guess I tend to select emitters for their tint at low levels like that. I should probably use single-emitter lights instead, but triples and quads seem more popular lately.
The LH351D 4000k 90CRI version is yellowish on the verge of green. It does get better at higher brightness but still not nice like the 219B 4000k. The two groupbuys for the LH351D used the T7 and T6 bin. If we can somehow get our hands on the T3 or T4 bin would be ideal for the FW3A.
That T7 color bin looks like it sits very close to cree’s 5A2, which has been my favorite tint so far, I’ll definitely have to try some of these.
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