Hotlight LPC-826...550mA....380mW

Promis me to make 1 you tube video of running it on 550 mA and i tell you it will not run longer than 2 hours cuz mine already died after 1 hour @ 480 mA @ 3 volt

Here's my two cents, Correct me if i am wrong..
I have been experimenting with GSA-H55N sleds, they are by far the best ones that can be extracted from the DVD's, It is a mitsubi$hi diode AFAIK LPC-815.. I have One running at 400mA, Other ones at 480mA, and 600mA..
I made the 600mA one in the Copper-core cpu heatsink just a couple of days ago and it has an amazing beam with just a regular acrylic lens..4 Minutes in the run time and the copper core temperature increase from 70F(ambient) to 80F.

Now, I heard last year some Polish members of our forum were running them at 600mA too and they worked nice and strong when properly heatsinked , and upto 750mA they tend to live but for a short time..

Other ones LPC-826's which are a "tiny bit" more efficient with optical output of not more than 20~25mW than LPC-815's on the average.. Which is not much when you compare the beams & burning power.. but on the LPM side the LPC-826 wins by 20~25mW's.
Since the LPC-826's tend to live for a short period at 550mA so rather kept safe at 420mA like LPC-815's, and LPC-815's for longer period at 600mA with "same" Optical Output, I think there is a general misunderstanding of these and practically there is "NO" difference but the only difference there is , is Technically/Theoretically..

And LPC-836's are definitely not as much powerful too
RESULTS--->here, SO, Basically they all are same, The only difference which could be possible is because of LPC-826's being new and unused hence efficient "a tiny bit more"
LPC-836's just a new market name with no serious improvements

Yes, i think anything over 500mA will kill a LPC-826 diode.

the one in this thread died 2 months after i built it, didnt use it much either.

R.i.p.

Too bad.. R.i.p
i will let you know when mine dies

RIP

I have also a LPC-826 at 500mA in a C3 build. Still going strong with regular uses.

Upon the LPC's death i removed the diode and replaced it with a 300mW mitubishi diode, 650-G-1 and a 3/4" focus adapter

Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!

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