Luxeon Rebel: High Density Surface Mount LED
When I was searching for Luxeon datasheet, I found a new product, the Luxeon Rebel series. Quite interesting product, in terms of dimension and light density.
Unlike the other types, this Luxeon is a surface mount LED. Over 150°C junction temperature with >80 Lumens in cool white at 350 mA. This LED supports up to 1000 mA current (nice!). It claims 50.000 hours life at 700 mA. From the datasheet, we can expect up to 145 Lumens at 700 mA (LXML-PWC1-0080). It’s available in various color (cool white, neutral white, warm white, green, cyan, blue, royal blue, red, red-orange, and amber). The white version can support 2670K-3500K (warm), 3500K-4500K (neutral), and 4500K-10.000K (cool) color temperature. Very flexible. Its typical forward voltage is similiar with other Luxeon (around 3.6 Volt or 3.4 Volt for red/orange/amber).
I tried to contact some distributor like Farnell to get this product, but currently they don’t carry the product. Will have to wait a month or two 
May 4th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
I have in my possession 30 royal blue Luxeon rebels and 30 cool white rebels. I knew they were small when I ordered them, but in real life they are small! I currently work with Luxeon 1 watt emitters making landscape lights that operate on 12 volt dc. These emitters are easy to work with by hand soldering to the anode and cathode contacts.
Do you know of anyone that can make circuit boards to use these new devices? A large array of these devices, maybe 10 emitters on a heatsink circuit board would make a great area light. The possibilities are endless, I do not have the means to work with surface mount tiny devices. If you are interested in these Rebels drop me an email.
Jim Mixan
May 13th, 2007 at 1:14 am
Hi Jim,
Where did you manage to get these from? i need red, green and blue for evaluation.
July 4th, 2007 at 1:22 am
Les, The Luxeon Rebels can be purchased from Future_Electronics.com
I know they have red,green and blue in stock. You will need to open up an account with Future Electronics to purchase them, it isn’t a complicated issue to sign up, but you need to sign and fax a document to them, it is an export document about reselling these devices.
I hope this helps,
Jim Mixan
July 4th, 2007 at 1:24 am
Email me if you need help with current regulation for the LEDS.
jmixan@solarlightandpower.com
Jim Mixan
November 22nd, 2007 at 5:10 pm
I got my Luxeon Rebels from http://www.dotlight.de they seem like a good supplier.
The Rebels are very very small, smaller than a match head.
Mounting them looks really awkward unless you have a custom PCB.
I’m going to try soldering them directly to a copper slug then glue/screw this to a larger aluminium heat sink. The advantage for me is that I only have space for a single lens so have two rebels very close together should still work.
I intend to use the guts of a cheap DC-to-DC converter (cigarette lighter socket PSU) to make a voltage step up.
Cheers
Jim J
February 11th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
We just released a board for the Rebel LED. It’s really easy to use and with solder paste and a heat source you can mount your Rebel LEDs by hand. We call our product the Rebel Square. It’s a 3 LED layout. We’ll be producing another design for a circle (6 LEDs) in about another month.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:53 am
I am interested in your Rebel boards, where can I get more info.
March 26th, 2008 at 4:09 am
Thanks to Keith Summers and his great circuit boards for Luxeon Rebel LEDS.
I purchased 100 from Keith. I never soldered a surface mount component until I received these boards. Placed a quality solder paste on the pads, heated the board on a hotplate and magically the solder melted and the surface tension pulled the Luxeon Rebel into perfect alignment. Soldered fifteen circuit boards in one afternoon each with three Rebels onboard. Pretty easy to do, and you should see the insane brightness of the Rebels! Can’t wait for the warm white LEDS with over 75 lumens at 350 milliamps of current, I have some serious Outdoor Lighting projects waiting to happen when these hit the market! Thanks again Keith, looking forward to doing more business with you.
March 31st, 2008 at 2:33 am
Just found this site… I sent some Rebels to Keith, and he custom mounted them for me on his boards - for thouse without Jim’s guts to DIY. Turned out GREAT! The fee was MORE than reasonable.
April 16th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Hello Gentlemen,
Thank you for the kind words. I’m very excited to hear of your positive results with the Rebel Squares.
Those who want to know more about mounting the Luxeon Rebels, please click on my name to be taken to my web site.
Thanks, Keith
May 26th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Keith,
If you are looking for soldering advice, I would recommend reading over the following article. It talks about soldering surface mount LEDs, such as the Rebel, using standard soldering stuff. No oven required. http://www.lunaraccents.com/LED-solder-tabs.html
May 26th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
This reference to an article about soldering LEDs is typically for those who have a reflow oven of some type. I don’t recommend this for those who use my board for small scale work. My boards have a metal bottom which allows you to heat from below with little to no risk of danger to the LED on the top of the board. This is a big difference in complexity. The article goes on to suggest using a toaster oven — with my product, that is the difficult approach. Using a small hot air gun is all that is required and you see easily see the work during the procedure.
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October 27th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
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