Holy Cow. Tri-Rebel... ALREADY??!?!

[xwingband]

I am not impressed with the Endor... they picked the oddest way to put them on there. They are too far apart.

THUS led-tech.de!

They have PCBs for the Rebel. Serial ones, RGB and singles. Add reflow soldering toaster oven style.

The singles come in 15 and 20mm stars. The 15 is great for the 3/4" applications.

If you want to try... GO NOW! Future electronics has most of the top binned colors available. I've already ordered my Green (145 lumens at 700mA with room to push!) and Royal Blues. Next I'm putting in the PCB order.

[acerocket]

Actually, the Endor tri-emitter is about as tight as you can pack the rebels with the optical centers of the LEDs on the same circle. The Led-tech stuff is mighty impressive though. That would be a very tight packaging. You would never be able to find an optic for it, but a special reflector might be a possibility. If anybody can pick those up and do a good job of reflow soldering them, then I would love to pick a couple up.

[Novastar]

Personally, I think we still have some time to wait before any kind of solid tri-lux solution becomes mainstream, but in the meantime, individual projects will certainly be neat to see!

As a dude who focuses on live staged combat, I am HOPING to have some kind of setup for BOP III that is twice or thrice or four times as bright as your "standard" LED/Luxeon style saber, but it would appear that this might be awfully tough given the size, heat, and battery constraints/requirements.

Then again--you never know what will happen between now and June 2008.

[xwingband]

They much tighter packed on the led-tech PCB's. I don't see why you couldn't fit it with a reflector... what I'm afraid of for the Endor is the donut effect.

I'm going to pick up one of the RGB ones. For certain I'm getting a set of the 15mm stars so I can start putting in those top bins.

[Hasid Lafre]

Agreed. I wouldent use this unless its the the best one out of the bunch.

700mA when they are capable of more to me spending the cash on this tri rebel isent worth it. I will wait and spend the money on the higher current versions.

[xwingband]

The problem is like previously the Red isn't up to muster. They are matching the lumens to make it so one doesn't over power the other in the grand scheme of things.

I've got to get out my ruler if any of the optics I have can fit about 6.6mm we're in business.

Also... the serial one would give wicked colors. Imagine three Greens at 700mA! 535 lumens with room to push.

[Hasid Lafre]

Yes true but only 3 reds is 300. Iam getting tired of the reds being the short end of the stick.

[Strydur]

We will soon be a retailer of LEDdynamics products. With this comes the option of ordering the k2 stars and endors with any available led's we want.

[xwingband]

We will soon be a retailer of LEDdynamics products. With this comes the option of ordering the k2 stars and endors with any available led's we want.

Cool, does that mean *pucks are on the way too?

[Hasid Lafre]

AWSOME!