Lumiled Altilon

[cadstarsucks]

Automotive headlamp LED

http://www.philipslumileds.com/pdfs/DS66.pdf

850Lm white at 14W mounted to a heatsink with normal hardware and optional fast ons for electrical connection.

It has been boring here lately... what's up with that?

Dan

[justDIY]

looks pretty neat, and expensive!  you manage to lay hands on one yet?  I imagine the flashlight crazies are already retrofitting their little "tactical" flashlights with these.

[cadstarsucks]

looks pretty neat, and expensive!  you manage to lay hands on one yet?  I imagine the flashlight crazies are already retrofitting their little "tactical" flashlights with these.

not likely.  not many flashlights will hold a 17x17mm light source and few to none have space for 10-15W worth of thermal management plus drive electronics.

Now a boost driver and heat sink might fit in a 6V lantern, but that is not what the crazies want.  They want to show off how much light they can pull out of their pockets.

[minimum]

Flashlights with 9W SSC P7 are quite popular. IMHO the thermal management is not so big issue with aluminum casing but the optics can be - 4 dies in one row means it needs custom reflector or optics.

From the CPF I noticed test report for Luminus Phlatlight SST-90 which was impressive: 2530 lumens @ 11,75 A   
As you can read, it was maximum he could squeeze out of the PSU , LED would have handled some more

[justDIY]

I wouldn't put it past the flashlighters to take a dremel to the LED's massive heatsink + frame in order to cram it into a smaller form factor.  I can't imagine most of their designs would pass any long-term thermal tests, but for intermittent operation and accepting a rather short service life who cares!