Sorry I’ve been away from blogging lately. Great to be back. Well, let’s start out with a neat little piece about Sharp. Sharp has recently introduced a line of LED modules each consisting of 30 LED chips divided into 10 parallel-switched groups of 3 LED chips on an aluminum ceramic substrate. The modules range from standard white to warm white up to what Sharp calls “High Color Rendering” (HCR) modules. These have CRI (Color Rendering Index) of 90. These new modules range in output from 170 lumens for the HCR modules to 280 lumens for the standard white module when driven at 360 mA. I’d like to see how well these can handle being driven to 720 mA on a graphite heat spreader. Anyrate, stated efficiencies are 80 lumens per watt for the standard white down to 50 lumens per watt for the HCR. Stated life cycle is 40,000 hours for all modules in the line.
Now all Sharp has to do is come up with a really spiffy name for these things and they’ll be all set. Maybe, Sharp Light Sabers…no,no,no….Sharp Star-O’s….Sharpeon’s? Super Sharp’s? Sharpstone? Hmmm….
Anyrate, you can check out the entire press release at LEDs Magazine
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