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sberens • yesterday at 11:10 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

As the founder of Brighter, I'm curious to see how #2 turns out ;)


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abound • yesterday at 11:18 PM

Haha I'll keep you updated! Like I mentioned in another comment, I don't have plans to commercialize it, I'm making it just not-janky enough to not pose a safety hazard/burn my house down.

In terms of design, I'm going a different route: Instead of a bunch of smaller LEDs, I'm doing 12x larger LEDs (6x 2700K, 6x 6500K). I'm using the Bridgelux V18 Thrives, so the CRI should be quite good (95+), as should the overall efficiency because I'm running them at pretty low amps relative to the spec sheet.

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hsuduebc2 • yesterday at 11:49 PM

I'm always amazed how everyone is here.