View Single Post
Old 04-20-2009, 11:51 AM   #8
Opcn
Registered User
 
Opcn's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Anchorage, AK
Posts: 148
What sucks, is that with .1 of a volt less potential your LED array would probably still be shining bright. LEDs have a sweet spot, at which they produce about 50 lumen's/watt, but when overdriven they enter unstable territory with more heat than light produced, if you stick an LED to a 9v battery it will be very bright for about a third of a second, then be gone, in order to get a little more power out of an array with out any added manufacturing cost they simply turn the voltage up a touch, they probably have a potentiometer in there somewhere and its probably a matter of a single turn of a small screw driver.
Opcn is offline   Reply With Quote