[Lab] LED temperature

[Darcy Whyte]

I'm not too worried about fire since I will only use the lamp supervised.

I think I read somewhere last night that 60C is some sort of limit for
LEDs. I think we're over that. But I just wanted to find out the
temperature to shoot for.

I'm debating if I should add a fan or larger heat sink. I suppose I could
just bolt it to a large chunk of aluminum...



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On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:39 AM, greg atcheson <greg.atcheson at gmail.com>wrote:

> That's a good question, I looked up the part used and can't find a solid
> datasheet. It's quite small to pump 50W through, I guess that heat has to
> go somewhere. Considering the relatively low cost of the component and
> triviality of its use, the only thing you should really be concerned with
> is setting fire to the surroundings.
>  Do you know what temperature it's actually getting to? A thermocouple
> probe that comes with some multimeters would be perfect for this.
>
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 1:46 AM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at inventorartist.com>wrote:
>
>> I made this cool led lamp: http://inventorartist.com/lamp/
>>
>> It get's pretty hot. Does anyone know what temperature the LED is allowed
>> to get to?
>>
>>
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