The new "Bridgelux Thrive" LED

https://www.ledsmagazine.com/leds-ssl-design/packaged-leds/article/16699036/bridgelux-announces-thrive-series-leds-with-uniform-and-broad-spd

Anyone heard of this? Looks like it's going to have a much more uniform light distribution. Is this going to be any good for plants? I can't seem to find any lm/w info either. Not sure if this is too oriented towards human sight and not efficient for plants or what. Interesting though, it sure looks a lot more like the uniform colour distribution of the sun. However, so do plasma lights and they don't always work great.

126lm/w but lumens are for humans. And this number is prob for the 5000k spectrum which is not flower friendly, except for old mother sativas grow . Im sure someone will have a look at digitizing the spectrum and calculating efficiency, i havent got the chops nor the tools. But it doesnt look too bad if your into spectrum tweaking.

You may wanna check out @Prawn Connery 's work with his high lights, they do something similar with nichias optisolis chip.
I think it will really boil down to price but bridgelux is usually towards the cheap side. Nice find.

Hadez411 said:

https://www.ledsmagazine.com/leds-ssl-design/packaged-leds/article/16699036/bridgelux-announces-thrive-series-leds-with-uniform-and-broad-spd

Anyone heard of this? Looks like it's going to have a much more uniform light distribution. Is this going to be any good for plants? I can't seem to find any lm/w info either. Not sure if this is too oriented towards human sight and not efficient for plants or what. Interesting though, it sure looks a lot more like the uniform colour distribution of the sun. However, so do plasma lights and they don't always work great.

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I saw that too. Don't even worry about the lm/watt. There are so many photons outside the narrow lumen curve. The SPDs look like they will be a real performer for plants...especially the 3K and 4K. I am waiting to see more on the Thrive offering and the EB version 3. Bridgelux is being a real tease lately! Let us know if you find more info.

126 lum/w on whats probably the 5000k. The old vesta 5000k 90cri spectrum was quoted 139 per watt per datasheet and 126 per test with Teknik, 2.23 ppf/w around .2w per chip
The extra uv wouldnt register much as per lum.

Rocket Soul said:

126 lum/w on whats probably the 5000k. The old vesta 5000k 90cri spectrum was quoted 139 per watt per datasheet and 126 per test with Teknik, 2.23 ppf/w around .2w per chip
The extra uv would register much as per lum.

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The way I read his reports, the Vesta would do 2.23 umols/J at .5 watts a chip. That is full test current of 1 amp and 50 watts per 560mm strip! It would do 2.47 umols/J at .25 watts a chip, AND the Vestas have dropped in price to $9.97 for the 560mm strip. I really like the 90cri SPD. I see little to gain by adding separate 660nm diodes. I haven't seen anything on the web, just RUMORS of a V2 Vesta.

Those numbers i quoted, thats and 25 w per channel and around 100chips per channel.

More than anything its for comparison. If thrive hits 126 with some extra uv id expect similar ppf/w as vesta 5000k 90 cri. But no point guessing too much

Rocket Soul said:

Those numbers i quoted, thats and 25 w per channel and around 100chips per channel.

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That's pretty simple math!
And I agree with it.
It's a great way to look at all the mid-power offerings: how hard are they running each diode.
I'll check and see where I got off track.

Yes.
I found the problem...and it was me.
I only counted the diodes on 1 side!