Report High Power LED Mood Lamp in Projects Q/A Posted April 2, 2007 Hi therei found your project here, but was really shocked when i found outyou did not recommend a heatsink as a musthaveif you use the 3W zpower led like in your tutorialyou MUST use a heatsink.with no heatsink you will shorten the life of your led very extremly!!i quote the datasheet of the original 3W zpower led:--------------------------Caution--------------------------Please do not drive a rated current more than 5 sec. without proper heat sinkso, to the author please add that to your tutorialsome suggestion:i used an old pentium 100 heatsink in my moodlamp:my complete worklog could be found here:http://freenet-homepage.de/haraldschmid/bml/
High Power LED Mood Lamp
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Hi there
i found your project here, but was really shocked when i found out
you did not recommend a heatsink as a musthave
if you use the 3W zpower led like in your tutorial
you MUST use a heatsink.
with no heatsink you will shorten the life of your led very extremly!!
i quote the datasheet of the original 3W zpower led:
--------------------------Caution--------------------------
Please do not drive a rated current more than 5 sec. without proper heat sink
so, to the author please add that to your tutorial
some suggestion:
i used an old pentium 100 heatsink in my moodlamp:
my complete worklog could be found here:
http://freenet-homepage.de/haraldschmid/bml/