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Re: [OM] rating of studio strobes

Subject: Re: [OM] rating of studio strobes
From: "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:02:26 +0800
You can't calculate the power consumption either, the wattage given is
output power not input power. I remember the T20 also specified power
output which is 50Ws.

C.H.Ling 

Jim Couch wrote:
> 
> The basic problem is that watts masure how much the light DRAWS from its
> power source, and say little, if anything about how much light they put out.
> There is no way to take this figure and calculate light output. I have never
> understoond why manufactureres started measruing lights (light bulbs, studio
> lights, bicycle lights, whatever) in watts. I also wonder why we continue to
> do so. The information is really pretty much wortheless, unless you want to
> know what it will cost you to run the lights, or how long the light will run
> with a given battery.
> 
> Jim Couch
>

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