Hopefully you used heat sink compound between heat sink and LED,I mounted an aluminium heat sink but it looks doesn't work, are u sure that the led don't require a resistor if it work at 12V?
or one of the thermal pads available to sub for the compound. That
dramatically affects transfer of heat from LED package into the heat
sink.
To control current you can add additional resistance in series with LED,
or use a PWM approach which would allow you also to implement dimming.
Banggood also has pwm dimmers.
Regards, Dana.
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