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Luxeon Rebel High Power LED - Warm White
This is a super-high intensity Luxeon Rebel LED, warm white in color. These LEDs provide optimized light quality and efficiency to address a number of project needs, including LED illumination.
These LEDs can be blindingly bright and have a max forward current of 1A! This LED has a typical forward voltage of 3VDC (2.55V to 3.99V range). They're also tiny; measuring in at about 3 x 4.5 mm.
These LEDs can get toasty; you may want to consider adding some form of heatsinking to them. In addition to the heatsink, we also carry a lense and lense carrier specific to the rebel LEDs. Those components are all part of a solderless LED holder, they all snap together and really simplify the connection to these LEDs.
- Datasheet (LXM3-PW61)
- LED Tutorial
Luxeon Rebel High Power LED - Warm White Product Help and Resources
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The Vf is rated as anything between 2.55V to 3.99V. With Typical Voltage being 3.2V. What happens as you use more or less VF?
Pop goes the weasel or nothing.
The heatsink for the product is no longer made, and nothing has been released to replace it. These heat up too much to stay on for longer than about 20-30 seconds. I suggest using a different LED unless they are meant to flash on and off.
Would I be able to mount a bunch of these using thermal tape on an old transistor heatsink I have? The heatsink is about 1 inch by about 4 inches, was originally designed for 3 high power transistors. I would like to be able to use that then mount it with power supply in an enclosure as a small up lighting wall wash fixture. If possible I would like to drive it with 5V if I can find an appropriate constant current driver for it, if not I can go with 12v if I have to.
Can this be connected to an arduino? And if so, how?
The pictures for this LED are the wrong ones. The front face of the warm white LED itself has a yellowish tint to it.
WARNING: Careful reading of the datasheet reveals:
If you give it too much current, the top bulb will melt off and the LED will start to become much dimmer.
I tried it out of curiosity.
Which Luxeon part # is this?
They show it next to the datasheet. Part# LXM3-PW61, it is the 3500K color temp version.