Dave lights up his new backyard deck with Cree XPG LEDs, and then winds up measuring the wind from a storm instead. And do you know the difference between efficiency and efficacy?

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18 thoughts on “Eevblog #50 – solid state cree led lighting, and how thermal design sucks.”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Osvaldimar dos Santos says:

    Acho que você se refere a frequencias ? Sim é a filosofia do movimento zeitgeist moving forward , mudânça de comportamento social , compreend?

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars rahulbindhu r says:

    Thanks for giving the update

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dermot Fixter says:

    Absolute class as always

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars swolebro says:

    Fiiiiine, Dave! I'll binge watch from the start. Maybe I'll catch up by 2030! Thank you for all the work you've done over the years! You've filled in many of the (many many) knowledge gaps in this physicist/software developer's education.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Irilia Neko says:

    Interesting project, and interesting to have the results 11 year after ^^

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Guns Cars and Digits says:

    Thermal design is a bastard sometimes. Convection, conservation of energy, emissivity. I do a lot of it, and it never ceases to amaze me. I'm getting into optics now, making portable spotlights. Shooting for 50 watts. I'm reverse engineering a Ryobi P717 LED spotlight. We're going for a 1.0 kilometer target in a reflector exercise.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hola! David Perkins says:

    Couldn't PWM come to the rescue in reducing wasted heat?

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars felixar90 says:

    How much better are led lights 6 years later?

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Oren Mitz says:

    One of the better videos I've seen of your's – Dave. Funny and highly efficient…

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dan ptl says:

    oh how i love Dave!! Thank you brother, i learn so much watching your videos.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Trinity Young says:

    What about a COB CXB3590 that puts out more than 50 watts.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars tablatronix says:

    Sounds like a job for matlab.

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars sykel says:

    seeing that drop in the temperature graph got me thinking about the possibility of making a "windometer" or whatever based on this effect. of course after some googling it was already invented, check wikipedia "hot-wire anemometer", its pretty much the same thing and apparently those devices are used for studying turbulent flow. interesting

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars j.oz says:

    I was assigned to be the thermal engineer for a group capstone project. At the review, the lead from our sponsor asked who I pissed off in order to get the job. The basic calculations always suffer from a lot of potentially flawed assumptions about the system, and though a finite element model can help with more complex systems it's still GIGO.
    I don't suppose you ever ran it through a FEM?

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Bart Deschepper says:

    been watching all videos from 1 to 50. Suddenly noticed he drops the words "you know" over and over again. great idea for a drinking game, you know 😉

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars MeltedSpades says:

    if in doubt, use a bigger heatsink

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Gordon Chin says:

    Do those little stars have a plate on the back for conducting heat but not electricity?

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hola! dlwatib says:

    Chill! The stress in your voice is way over the top. You'll get a heart attack if you don't learn to calm down. We'd have to heat-sink you if you started talking about something really exciting like politics or religion or football.

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