Luminus

Luminus SST-90 LED

Luminus is a LED manufacturer based in Billerica, Massachusetts. They produce the SST-50 and SST-90 LED's (SSR-50 and SSR-90 are just the LED mounted to a star). These LED's compete with the SSC P7 and Cree MC-E, but the LED is a single emitter instead of 4 separate ones working together. The size of the emitter is similar so there is a large hotspot, but because the entire emitter lights up, SST-50 lights are less prone to a donut hole of darkness at the center of the beam.

SST-50

The SST-50 is 2.2mm x 2.2mm (5 mm²) drawing up to 5 amps while outputting up to 1250 emitter lumens. This is a big current draw for a flashlight and batteries and produces a large amount of heat, therefore the LED's are driven lower than maximum. Flashlights using this LED are capable of 500 lumens of output on one 18650 li-ion cell and up to 900 lumens using 2 18650's. web page

The SST-50 is used in the ThruNite Catapult, LumaPower D-Mini VX Ultra, Olight M21 Warrior Luminus, and the Tiablo AS50.

Here are the Brightness Bins for the SST-50. Note that unlike Cree, Luminus gives benchmarks at some current per mm&sup2 instead of just a current level to the LED.

Luminus SST-50 (maximum bin is J)

Bin	1750mA (350mA/mm²)	2800mA (700mA/mm²)	5000mA (1000mA/mm²)
F	275-350	413-525	635-823
G	350-425	525-638	823-999
H	425-500	638-750	999-1175
J*	500-600	750-900	1175-1410
K	600-700	900-1050	1410-1645

SST-90

The SST-90 is 3mm x 3mm (9mm²) drawing up to 9 amps while outputting up to 2250 emitter lumens. web page

Luminus SST-90 (maxium bin is N)

Bin	3200mA (350mA/mm²)	5000mA (700mA/mm²)	9000mA (1000mA/mm²)
K	600-700	882-1029	1410-1645
L	700-850	1029-1250	1645-1998
M	850-1000	1250-1470	1998-2350
N*	1000-1200	1470-1764	2350-2820
P	1200-1450	1764-2132	2820-3408

CBM-360

The CBM/CSM-360 is four SST-90 dies mounted on a single device. It is designed as a replacement for high power illumination lamps. web page

http://www.luminus.com/