[NewCandle] SEC - Strategic Erg Command

[Jones Beene]

Nick

> The LED string I have consists of 20 green GaN (with
> an average voltage drop of 2.6V at .125mA) 20 white GaN
> (with an average voltage drop of 3.1V@ .125mA) and 18
> orange GaAsPN (with an average voltage drop of 1.3V@
> .125mA)

What am I missing here? Your figures are way-way off from specs. Are 
they taken from actual measurement? If so, then is this measurement 
taken using RF instead of DC ?

Here is the spec sheet for similar bulbs:

http://www.lumitex.com/tn_2-1.html

This spec sheet indicates a DC power draw of 120 mW per bulb, which 
should end up for 60 bulbs being many watts, in fact it would be a 
factor of several hundred times your numbers.

> If I consider the power dissipated by each LED as
> being ~ V x A, and then add all the devices together,
> I come up with a total power dissipation of .0176W, or
> 17.6mW.  The eye wants to tell us that there is so
> much more!  But eyes lie...

OK I think you can see why I am having a problem here assimilating these 
numbers into the manufacturer's spec sheet for DC operation of the 
bulbs. Does the spec sheet lie?

Can you please "enlighten" me ?

Jones