New high-performing LEDs offer small light-emitting surface for quality-conscious lighting

RS Components is stocking the newly launched Lumileds Gen-4 Luxeon COB LEDs, offering smaller, simpler luminaires to deliver bright and vibrant lighting. With pace-setting efficacy of up to 170lm/W, the industry’s smallest LES, and package thermal resistance up to four times lower than other COB LEDs, lighting designers using these LEDs can create new styles featuring denser arrays, smaller optics, and simplified construction. Also, colour consistency within a three-step MacAdam ellipse gives freedom from binning to simplify component purchasing and luminaire production while ensuring uniform appearance from unit to unit. High colour fidelity is another strong suit of these latest LEDs, which have CRI of up to 90. Consistent rendering of all wavelengths makes them perfect for colour-critical lighting in areas such as such as showrooms, retail displays, laboratories, healthcare centres, and industrial inspection areas. Applications like downlights, spotlights, high-bay and low-bay lighting, and architectural or general outdoor lighting can also benefit from the superior brightness, clarity and efficacy of Luxeon Gen-4 LEDs. All units are hot-tested at 85C, which gives an accurate indication of performance and reliability in real-world operating conditions and removes additional testing burdens from lighting manufacturers.