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SA Development
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:43 am    Post subject: Why do some LED's produce more light than others at the same Reply with quote

Hi,

I ordered some LED's from www.superbrightleds.com to mess around with, but I
have a question:

This one says it produces 3000mcd at 3.5V forward voltage 20ma:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/specs/w_specs.htm

The one says it produces 18000mcd at 3.5V forward voltage 20ma:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/specs/w18030_specs.htm

Both have 30 degree viewing angles. Is the 18000mcd that much more
efficient?

Thanks,

SA Dev

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Jonathan Kirwan
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:03 am    Post subject: Re: Why do some LED's produce more light than others at the Reply with quote

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:43:47 -0600, "SA Development"
<nospam38925@forme.com> wrote:

Quote:
I ordered some LED's from www.superbrightleds.com to mess around with, but I
have a question:

This one says it produces 3000mcd at 3.5V forward voltage 20ma:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/specs/w_specs.htm

The one says it produces 18000mcd at 3.5V forward voltage 20ma:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/specs/w18030_specs.htm

Both have 30 degree viewing angles. Is the 18000mcd that much more
efficient?

Thanks,

Interesting question. Since they are both GaN types, I would tend to
guess that it is more about the phosphors used and the resulting
distribution of the energy working with the human eye's sensitivities
that lead to the bulk of the differences. Or else about the viewing
angles (which you snipped in the bud.) Finally, it might be due to a
backside reflector of some kind in the brighter one.

It would be hard to believe that a factor of 6 in efficiency would
occur on GaN processing alone.

Looks like those two data sheets were dead copies of each other except
for the difference in mcd and part number. Perhaps Don K. will teach
us about what is going on here...

Jon
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