Good questions Salmonetin, originally I just made the spreadsheets for my own use and I never made them very user friendly
-The minus 0.50 represents the decrease in Vf as the temp rises from 25C to 50C.
-$28.21 is the current price at digikey. We might be able to get them cheaper from Kingbrite at some point
-The "factor" column represents "current droop" for Veros and represents combined current/temp droop for Cree CX series. I derive those numbers by counting pixels from the PDF data. I have always used a Tj of 50C across the board because I think that is a fair goal for our cooling. However, when COBs are run hard they are likely above that and run soft they can be below that. To make things more confusing, in some charts manufacturers started using Tc data rather than Tj data, and some parts of their PDF still refer to Tj. So it is not very clear unfortunately. That is an imperfect part of my system, but it gets us close and makes the numbers more easily comparable.
Cree CXB3070 example:
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-There are several different LERs floating around from Mr Flux, Stardustsailor and Alesh. As far as I know Alesh numbers are the most up to date and includes data about the changes in the Vero V2.0 so I have been using those. Thank you
@alesh! PS are these LER figures for 400-700nm or 380-780nm?
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