Luminus

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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.

Luminus SST-90 LED

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/