philips rebel led?

[justDIY]

cadstarsucks pointed out to me that philips has released their Rebel series of smd leds.

tiny little buggers with 60-100 lumens output!

his samples are on their way, but I'm wondering if anyone else has some already, and what your initial reactions are?

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[Hero999]

cadstarsucks was banned from this forum a few weeks ago. I don't know why though, he never seemed to cause any trouble. I suppose Nigel must've managed to delete his posts that broke the rules before I managed to see them.

 

[justDIY]

What does that have to do with Philips LEDs?

 

[Hero999]

Nothing but you also mentioned cadstarsucks, perhaps you could point us in the direction of the post where he mentioned the said LEDs.

 

[audioguru]

Philips bought Lumileds so maybe the new one is another Luxeon LED.

 

[justDIY]

Philips has always owned lumileds. They recently bought out HP's stake in the company a few years back.

@Hero: here's Dans post regarding the rebel...
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[Hero999]

Sounds impressive, I would have never thought that one day an LED would be named after a motor bike.
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[Nigel Goodwin]

You mean after a motorbike that stole it's name from an older one?, I had a Suzuki Rebel back in the early 70's!

 

[Andy1845c]

Is it only available as a surface mount device?

 

[justDIY]

why is it so hard to stay on topic? there is a ****-chat forum folks, why not use it rather than detract from a legitimate thread?

@andy:

it appears so, smd only for now. the reasoning behind the package is extremely low thermal resistance, so heat from the junction can be transfered effectively.

 

[NewBie/Jarhead]

Some testing of the Rebel:
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