Anyone know where I can pickup some bare LEDs in bulk? Thinking about quantities of 100 ~ 1000. Mainly looking for Cree XP-E2, XP-G2, XP-G3. Nichia 219, and some lattice brights to mess around with.
American sellers are:
Arrow.com (free shipping for October)
Digikey.com
Mouser.com
I believe Intl-outdoor normally buys a reel at a time, so you could probably get a quantity discount from them.
User Mitko has a couple thousand XP-E2 emitters for sale on the cheap.
And of course there’s always Aliexpress.
Nichias and Latticebrights will be the harder ones to find. Cree is everywhere.
…which is ironic considering that the LB LEDs have completely infected the budget light market…
I think we started seeing the LBs around the time that the T-Virus infected Cree emitters.
…and speaking of infections, I found RC’s flashlight… 
I believe Future Electronics is the NA Nichia distributor and I was able to get some 229As from them actually.
+1 for XP-E2 from Mitko.
Often I have XP-G3s, but I cant provide wide tint choise.