5 watt compared to 3 watt Red?

**ti-el_terall** · 08-14-2007, 06:47 PM

Hey all, I just got my Cyan 5 watt LED (looks more green wich is sweet

) and I was looking at it today and it seems about on par with my 3 watt greens. Is this right? Im running it off 6 AA and with a resistor. Could it be low batteries? I know that 3 watt reds should be on par, but my Cyan kinda seems disapoitning right now.

**goldsaberwarrior** · 08-14-2007, 06:53 PM

Try some new batteries. Hopefully that's all it is. Just as a precaution check to make sure your wiring is good and that you have the right resistor. You may have to go up to 8AAs or buy a new resistor or something. Hope I could help.

**Lord Maul** · 08-14-2007, 09:23 PM

make sure your soldering connections are really good. on my ani conversion, they weren't the best, and after re-doing them, it increased brightness by 50%

**ti-el_terall** · 08-14-2007, 09:32 PM

I have good confidence in this soldering job :P . Now that its night time I se it a bit brighter. I do need the correct resistor, I just got the basic kit and it came with the "basic" resistor and its not reaching its full potential. It still kicks major butt tho, I love it

**Marsupial** · 08-15-2007, 06:44 AM

I can't say for 5-watters, and I don't know what bin yours is from, but the lux III cyan are known to look green when not powered to their full potential.

If you haven't configure your power pack/driver/whatever correctly, even a higher lumens LED won't look as bright as a correctly configured lower brightness one.

**supertrogdor** · 08-15-2007, 11:01 AM

you could always try reconfiguring your resistor to overdrive the LED a bit, but that is at your discretion as it can prematurely deteriorate the LED

**Hasid Lafre** · 08-15-2007, 11:08 AM

IS your power switch on the positive side of the line and not inbetween both pos and neg?

**djbordie** · 08-15-2007, 11:57 AM

hey i have the same issue, (not brightness)
my 5w cyan is very green, and it looks stupid in my graflex luke anh
is there a way to make it more blue? or is it because it is a higher bin #?
i can try to re configure, but it wont do much, and i followed the basic led wiring diagram...

id love it to be more blue if anyone has a trick or idea, thanks.