Eddlyss64 wrote:
EDIT AND TL;DR, would the color combo I want be more akin to AAALG when configuring a Saberforge Quad Cree?
SF Yellow is AAAG, at least according to
this post.
Lime Green diodes are only available from Luxeon; SF uses Cree XQ-E diodes.
Major_Tom wrote:
Thanks for the examples! how true would you say the colors in your photo are to life? Also, which color is which lol.
Fairly accurate. Amber on the left, Yellow on the right.
Major_Tom wrote:
Also, do you know which white you are using in the tri-cree? I see that white XP-E2s come in 3000k (warm), 4000k (neutral), and 5000k (cool), and was wondering if they mix with PCA differently.
Oh sorry, i misread, would it be possible to get a picture with the white die illuminated?
I ask because I am looking to make an off-white/golden blade, and i feel as though the cooler and brighter whites may interact well with photon/enhanced day blades, as they respond best to blues.
Remind me over the weekend to mess with settings and take pics; have a work trip the next two days and will be away from sabers
White in a Photon blade just makes a sort of "lime green". It's pretty underwhelming.
I have done some mixing before with Amber and White (cool) and it's... disappointing. It does not take much white to completely wash out amber. Basically if you run 1 Amber and 1 Cool White at full, you make like a 3600k White LOL. I would imagine that what you're hoping for would be best achievable with Warm white and 2x PCA dies.
The Amber/Amber saber above, and another one I have that's Red-Orange/Amber, have a 6200k cool white die, as the LEDs were from TCSS (and that's the part# they stock for the LEDs). The LG/PCA/W Yellow I believe has neutral white; I just use it for FoC so I never really paid attention. That one's a custom Luxeon tri-Rebel that Jas-Ot ordered for me. (no idea if he remembers which white it was almost a year later lol)
Major_Tom wrote:
Also, given that PCA starts out as a blue, would that mean that it interacts properly with the photoluminescent blades? or does the phosphor coating convert the light fully?
No. The phosphor dye is in the little dome lens on the diode itself. The only part of it technically being blue that matters is for resistor calculations. You can Google "phosphor-converted amber" and read all the technical blah blah blah if you want, but all that matters about it for our purposes is: 1. it's brighter than regular amber, and 2. you don't need to use a resistor on a 3.7v battery setup.