6000 Lumens!?!

[P137R0]

I was looking around at candlepowerforums.com and I saw this:

http://www.luminus.com/content1520

High Output – 3600 lumens (6500K at high efficiency) or as much as 6000 lumens (6500K at high output)
Large, single chip with an emitting surface area of 5.4 mm2
High thermal conductivity package with a package thermal resistance of only 0.96° C/W
Integrated thermistor allows for real-time monitoring of the LED’s temperature
Lumen maintenance of greater than 70% after 60,000 hours
Variable drive current from less than 1 A to 6.3 A
Available in a variety of Correlated Color Temperatures (CCT’s) per ANSI C78-377-2008
Designed with a standard on-board connector

[Kal El Rah]

Interesting find.

[Rhyen Skytracker]

Not too bad forward voltage too at 12.8 Volts. Looks like LED technology is making another step forward.

[Sunrider]

That's basically 4 sst-90s in series. The dome is 16mm.

[Onli-Won Kanomi]

Well well now...soooo its a quad SST-90...predictable but I'm surprised they moved so fast on it.

Interesting times coming.

edit: Maybe they are already here.

[DJMoonbass]

heres the only draw back.
http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/...ction=products

hole CRAP! its a 170.00 dollar LED folks. man it had better be worth the money. lol. but yeah these LEDs are deffinatley the future of this hobby.

[Onli-Won Kanomi]

Things are always expensive when they are new...the "bleeding edge" usually bleeds from the wallet and its the 'early adopters' whose wallets bleed first and most...but then over time increasing production and economies of scale lessen the rate of hemorrhage.

And saber building is not exactly a cheap hobby...if a few of us can and will pay upwards of a G-note for a custom saber and more of us will pay well over a C-note for a high end soundboard then some of us would pay as much for a uber-high-end LED *if* the performance was really SPECTACULARLY superior enough methinks.

These may be 'not quite ready for prime time' YET for MOST of us...but then right now most of us would probably say the same thing about 3-D TV sets and TV manufacturers expect to ship a million this year [probably more now because of Avatar]...and a few years ago would have said it about HDTV...now even someone 'poor' [in North American terms] like me has one.

We're seeing the future...and the future's so bright, I gotta wear shades...

lol

[KuroChou]

Also worth noting that they're boasting 1900+ from the pure green.

[Goltar Bias]

At this rate we may have a saber with a blade that is bright in broad day light with in the next decade.