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To: truthfreedom

That’s 1500 lumens less than the average commercially available standard glove box flashlight.


27 posted on 09/07/2010 1:00:43 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

I’m not an expert, but I have studied this a bit. I have bought those little leds and I have wired them series / parallel, about 100 of em, and powered them with an old adapter.

A 26 watt cfl gives about 1600 lumens.
50 watt / 4000 lumens is pretty good.

There are other units of measure, such as millicandelas.

There are also other factors, such as the directionality of the beam.

I doubt that a commercially available standard glove box flashlight would give 5500 lumens. 5500 of something else maybe.

People who follow LEDs, and I do, a bit, watch very closely how many lumens per watt an LED gives. The good ones do over 100 lumens a watt. Crees are apparently the best, they’re breaking records left and right, but it takes a while to go from the lab to the store.

LEDs are more efficient than CFLs which are more efficient than incan.


41 posted on 09/07/2010 1:34:39 PM PDT by truthfreedom
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