{"id":301,"date":"2010-07-21T10:38:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T10:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2010-07-21T10:38:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T10:38:30","slug":"high-power-leds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/21\/high-power-leds\/","title":{"rendered":"High power LEDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/luminus.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/luminus.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"luminus\" width=\"620\" height=\"443\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-307\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/luminus.png 620w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/luminus-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 10 years ago, as high power LEDs became available, many quantitative microscopists started changing over from arc lamps to LEDs for illumination because of their rock solid intensity. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipslumileds.com\/support\/documentation\/datasheets\">Philips Lumileds<\/a> have been the weapon of choice (up to ~100 lumens), and remain an excellent line of mature products. But more recently, Luminus has been producing some super high power LEDs (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.luminus.com\/content1461\">>2000 lumens<\/a>) that are worth considering.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luminus.com\/content1452\">Luminus PT line<\/a> has large area, monolithic flat emitters (1.5-12 mm<sup>2<\/sup>) with intensities from 200-600 lumens, depending on the color. These things are beasts, and suck up to 30 amps each. Check out the fuse-like blade connectors on the OEM boards:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/phlatlight1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/phlatlight1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"phlatlight\" width=\"620\" height=\"368\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-305\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/phlatlight1.png 620w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/phlatlight1-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lumileds have the advantage in terms of spectral variety available, but if you need more light, Luminus is the way to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/luminus.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 10 years ago, as high power LEDs became available, many quantitative microscopists started changing over from arc lamps to LEDs for illumination because of their rock solid intensity. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipslumileds.com\/support\/documentation\/datasheets\">Philips Lumileds<\/a> have&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/21\/high-power-leds\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22,21],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-electronics","tag-imaging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}