Jay-gon Jinn's Luxeon Rebel Star Try-out

[Jay-gon Jinn]

That's what I was thinking, xl, a shim of some sort might help eliminate the need to glue in your lens holder with these.

[Rhyen Skytracker]

Thanks for taking the time to do the side by side comparisons. It was very helpful.

[Strydur]

If you use a standard lux 3 holder and lens they should work just as good. I have not tested this but they look to fit to the LED dome the same. When doing it this way there is less of a height issue as there is with the rebel lens holder. We have some washer shims that will work good to use between the blade holder and lens to take up any extra space.

[Jay-gon Jinn]

If you use a standard lux 3 holder and lens they should work just as good. I have not tested this but they look to fit to the LED dome the same. When doing it this way there is less of a height issue as there is with the rebel lens holder. We have some washer shims that will work good to use between the blade holder and lens to take up any extra space.

Yes, I can confirm that this does indeed work, Tim. I just tried it with one of your lens holders and a 10 deg lens, and it worked just fine. No rattling due to a loose lens holder.

[Vos Malek]

Using the thermal tape underneath the led may also take out some of the extra space. It won't take out much, but it should be enough.

[Sunrider]

Thanks for a great comp. Is the one you used the 38 or 48 at 700ma.

[FenderBender]

Thanks a lot for doing this Jay! Can't wait to see the green comparison. The Rebel green specs look real promising

[Kant Lavar]

That reminds me I wanted to sit down one day and work out a way to power a tri-Rebel using... hell, whatever I could. Thinking perhaps the new LED driver on a paralell circuit with an MR board for sound may work, though it'd require a DPDT switch and probably a resistor or inverter on the MR board...

Bah. I'll just scribble a note on my whiteboard and go to sleep. 0337 is not my best designing time; I should have learned this lesson by now.

[Kal El Rah]

Very nice comparison Jay, thanx a lot it helps very much in choosing a future light source.

[Jay-gon Jinn]

Green comparison is going to be awhile...I'm out of extra heatsinks at the moment, and don't feel like desoldering my other led's....I know, I'm lazy...

The green Rebel Single I got was also not the brightest one, but the most comparable in price to a green Luxeon III and Seoul P4, so it is the dimmest version of them.