What Will the Next Big Emitter Be?

LED Flashlights – General Info
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To replace the XM-L2? Anyone know?

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Tell you 6 months after we know :wink:

Seriously, you’re asking for fortune tellers and time travellers to visit this thread :wink:

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It seems to depend on drivers.

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XM-L3

:slight_smile:

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It’s my favourite emitter, however could really do with an upgrade. It could be made to be 30-40% more efficient by now, and probably upgraded to 3000-3500 lumens.

Well I’m allowed to dream………

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I dunno how BIG you want them, but these are almost an inch diameter.

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37 volts. That’s going to be a very long flashlight.

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Mine’s bigger and shinier than yours :party: :

http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?pv562=3955&FV=fff40008%2Cfff80354&k=bridgelux&mnonly=0&newproducts=0&ColumnSort=0&page=1&quantity=0&ptm=0&fid=0&pageSize=25

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You could drive the previously linked die with this.

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XML3

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Nope, not powerful enough… those are 100 watt leds and that is a 20 watt driver.

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10x 18350 imr in a 6d mag?

someone pm gtamazing i bet he could do it after he finishes his mkr mag

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I was going by, "Oh look, there's light coming out of it. A substantial amount too."
Meaning it's going to be driven only around 0.6A just eyeballing the Vf-current graph, but still.

An XM-L isn't always driven at maximum either, ya know.
(It's more like 5A on a SinkPad/Noctigon shoved behind a mighty aspheric.) That seems more commonplace here, haha.

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I'm trying to do my small part in fixing that problem.