Creating a row of very bright LEDs

[SonyBoy]

I'm working on a consumer tech product that has two rows of very bright LEDs, about 30 in each row. I cannot get IES info for these lights, so I'm going with just ordinary rect lights. However, I don't seem to be able to get them anywhere near bright enough, even cranked up to very high numbers in the hundreds. Anyone got any tips on how to get tiny rect lights to emit very high intensities? These lights also need to be visible in camera, or at least proxies of them for render purposes. That doesn't necessarily affect the main issue of direct illumination intensity though.

[stezza]

Id say thats quite normal I have had lights in the millions! Keep going until you can see them are you using physical cam?

[hermit.crab]

And does it have an exposure control installed?

[Karol.Osinski]

I'd boost the s**t ouf of the intensity.

[SonyBoy]

And does it have an exposure control installed?

Can you elaborate? I'm not familiar with this.

[hermit.crab]

Can you elaborate? I'm not familiar with this.

Physical cameras have the "Exposure color correction" option, with which you may control a scene's lighting as seen through the camera (i.e. Physical exposure relies on the ISO, Shutter Speed, and F-number to control the amount of light penetrating the lens). I asked this because such exposure control would act as a bottleneck for the scene's lighting. I am uncertain of the kind of effect you're trying to achieve, however, manipulating the exposure control or/and increasing the intensity should do the trick.