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Thread: NEW BLUE !!! Nichia 462nm 1.4W

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    Default NEW BLUE !!! Nichia 462nm 1.4W

    Here 'tiz ---

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    Samples in route. Testing coming soon.
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    If I recall correct this is very near the same as OPSL blue.

    Just as I plan any upgrade the parts for said upgrade always become yesterdays technology.
    I got two Osram 450nm 1.4W diodes waiting to be fitted by Rob (Stanwax).
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    Great! Thanks Jordan
    Carl- sorry to hear that .. seems tomorrow's technology is always yesterday's technology today .. 'tis the nature of the beast I suppose ..

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    Posting to keep track. Really looking forward to this.
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    ^ yeh, me too
    Oh, and I need to mention that the original post / finder of this new diode was not me, but a new member Crazy who posted this over on the "interesting ebay finds" thread.


    Quote Originally Posted by Crazy View Post
    this was just posted over on LPF, thought i would share it with those of you who havent seen it. Finally a brighter blue direct diode. I am assuming Nichias goal was/is to make a diode replacement for DPSS 457, but who knows. Of course, they are multimode, and divergence is nearly on par with the newer 3.5W 445's. I imagine we will see these in higher powers soon, and hopefully with less crapworthy divergence (or a multiwatt single mode- we can wish, I guess )
    Welcome to PL Crazy !!
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    Soooo I know some one here can tell us how much visibly brighter 462 is than 445.....

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    Wellll .. crunched a few numbers earlier and it looks like roughly 2.5X. 445=.030 and 465=.074, using a standard 555=1.000 table.
    --and credit goes to you too Stiffler for the re-post on another thread which brought this new find to everyone's attention
    Cheers !!
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    So that basically means this should appear as bright as the brightest 445 available...I wonder what the beam quality will be:-)

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    There's some smart people on this forum. I'm sure that the beam quality will get sorted out

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