TOPIC: A Great Deal To Learn About LED's I Have

So there's a 2xR 2xA and 2xRo 2xA. I wonder if that makes a more orangy (is that a word?) color?

Neat info on that RedOrange availability.

Something of note about the LED - aside from the obvious blood-orange hue, is that, not counting Phosphor-Converted colors, RedOrange is the *brightest* of the warm-color LEDs. I'm assuming this is because PhotoRed/Red spend a good portion of energy putting out invisible Infrared light, while standard Amber suffers from previous LED tech having trouble putting out anything between orange and green.

PC Amber (at least the Cree variant) seems to tie with Green for brightest LED in the lineup, and is more yellow-hued than previous Amber (which is my guess as to why 12W+ Yellow had to be reformulated to AAAG compared to the previous 12W AAGG). In a similar manner that Photon Green blades make bright Lime Green blades with Blue light, Phosphor-Converted LEDs basically use a fancy compound to make Blue LEDs put out different color light (this has actually been used for a while to make really bright White LEDs).

There's another PC color that's exclusive to the Luxeon lineup called Lime, sitting in between Yellow and Green (a bit closer to yellow), and beating every other colored LED from any product line in terms of brightness. Luxeon actually makes a color-changing lightbulb with a RedOrange/Lime/RoyalBlue setup that I've been meaning to replicate in a saber build. It sacrifices true reds and greens, but the end result should be a brighter blade than is capable with a standard RGrB setup.

Folks wanting to stick with SF 12W+ and color changing might want to consider some custom mixes. RedOrange/PCAmber/Green/RoyalBlue should be able to put out some really nice bright colors at the expense of never producing a deep red. PhotoRed should be added soon (if it hasn't already been) to produce some deep deep reds, at the expense of brightness. Perhaps doubling up on PhotoReds to compensate might be in order. PhotoRed/PhotoRed/Green/RoyalBlue might be an interesting color mix, though yellows might suffer a bit, and the folks at VV seem to recommend standard Red for mixing purple.

HotRod wrote:
From what I've seen elsewhere, red-orange and amber makes a nice creamsicle orange that's closer to some of the SW video games' depiction of orange sabers.

And speaking of colors that use amber, yellow is available for plug n' play LEDs but the DIY ones don't have a 3xA 1xG in the drop down menu.