Cree’s XLamp CXA2 LEDs Set a New Standard for Better Performance

March 8, 2017

Cree, Inc. has enhanced its XLamp CXA2 family of chip-on-board (COB) LEDs with new premium colour options, higher light output levels and the longest lifetimes published for this type of LED. The premium colour quality options include high fidelity (98 CRI) and specialty colour points for the 9 to 19 mm LES sizes with up to 50% higher efficacy than LEDs of similar sizes and light quality.

These enhancements to the CXA2 family LEDs enable Cree’s customers to upgrade the performance of existing designs and to sell their products into lighting applications where colour quality is important, such as museum, retail and medical lighting.

“The leading efficacy and excellent reliability of Cree’s CXA2 LEDs allow us to create a complete portfolio of high quality, energy efficient LED track lights,” says Eric Lin, General Manager, Westport International. “With the new premium colours, the CXA2 family will allow us to bring these same advantages to more customers and applications while still leveraging the same, easy-to-use platform.”

The CXA2 Standard Density LEDs now deliver up to 10% higher light output levels across all CRIs and light emitting surface (LES) sizes, providing the highest COB LED efficacy for all applications. The CXA2 LEDs are the only COB LEDs in the industry to have more than 11,000 hours of LM-80 data available. Based on this data, the CXA2 LEDs provide L90 lifetimes well beyond 60,000 hours, even at extreme 105°C test conditions.

Product samples are available now and production quantities are available with standard lead times. Visit http://www.cree.com/cxa2 to learn more about the CXA2 LED arrays and http://www.cree.com/cxa2premium for more information about the Premium colour options.

 

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