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Pre-release: Zebralight SC65c HI, the first flashlight with a stacked LED (www.zebralight.com)

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Stacked camera sensors have been a thing for a while now; they have improved sensitivity to light by stacking translucent photodiodes on top of each other.

The Nichia 719A is the inverse; translucent LEDs are stacked on top of each other (in a single package) for increased intensity.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I worry about the huge flux range. Most emitter bins are like ±4-5% flux. 719A bins are ±10% flux. So theoretically you could be looking at close to 20% swings in lumens and throw from emitter to emitter. And you can't drive them past 2.5A so you can't drop one into a D1/KR1 or any lights really since most 6V drivers are 4A+.

Hopefully they are more throwy than an XPLHI or XHP35 otherwise idk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Do we know how hard they can really be driven? Zebralight won't drive them hard of course, but they don't drive anything else hard either.