I e-mailed the Bridgelux sales guy for North America. Here's his response:
"A few clarifications on Bridgelux first.
- we produce and sell LED die (or chips) which we sell (mostly in Asia) to component companies which use our chips to create all kinds of lighting products, including packaged LED emitters (single chip and multichip), multichip LED arrays, light bulbs, and many other LED components.
- we also use our chips to produce our own line of multichip LED arrays in various package styles that generate 250-8000 lumens of white light.
- all our products can be seen at
www.bridgelux.com go to products, then to either die or arrays.
- we only make blue die / chips
- our arrays are only white (warm, neutral, cool).
- we don’t sell the chips thru Digikey or Newark , only the arrays.
It is quite possible that AquaStyle is using our chips as we sell 100’s of millions of chip to Asia every year. However, most of our chips are sold thru distributors and without knowing the actual manufacturing company (I doubt they buy under the Aqua-Style company name) it would be hard to prove they are actually using Bridgelux."
I bought these from Aquastyle as the price is very low and I wanted to see how LED stuff looks on my tank. So far after about 1.5 months I am pretty happy with them, except the colors. I wish there was more red. I imagine any CW/RB combo will be the same. I only have a few LPS/zoas and my tank is new, so I cannot comment on high-end SPS. Have not got a gold of a PAR meter either yet.
