EEVblog #50 – Solid State LED Lighting, and How Thermal Design Sucks

Dave lights up his new backyard deck with Cree XPG LEDs, and then winds up measuring the wind from a storm instead. And who can spell efficacy?

LINKS:
Cree XPG LED Datasheet
Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive
Luminous Efficacy Graph
Graph #1
Graph #2
LED Strip, Mounted LED
700mA 35W Mains LED driver

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