UFO … That’s what they’re called, maybe because they are around, maybe because the vendors grew weary of calling them luxeon clones. No, I’m not writing about some errant weather balloon, the planet venus, or my neighbors truck seen through beer goggles… I’m writing about some high-output LEDs

These are the first of any ‘next gen’ leds I’ve worked with … I’m stoked they are so tiny … its often hard to tell the scale when you just see pictures of these things online with nothing of known size in the shot.

the big black module is an RGB ufo, with three one watt emitters in a single package. It’s wired as a common anode device… should work out well with my led controller project. The small led in the top of the picture is a white piranha led. The smaller silver module is a blue UFO.

This is the die of a blue ufo, running at a greatly reduced capacity. I still had to stop my camera all the way down to take this shot with any amount of detail … (1/4000s f7.3)

More pictures to come. I have a red, blue and green mounted to an old 586 heatsink which provides ample cooling to the 3 watt load, I’m going to work on mounting the driver circuitry to the backside of the heatsink and should have some pictures shortly!