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Subject: [OM] Re: LED bulb efficiency
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:13:22 +0000
I'd like to see, if the FedEx jerks could get me my package containing a sample 
pack. I've heard nothing today. I guess I'll just give up. It's too aggravating 
to fool with.

Walt

--
"Anything more than 500 yards from 
the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
Edward Weston


-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 
> > From: Dan Mitchell <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > If the 61 LED version has 30 degree 18,000 MCD LEDs, the output should
> > be roughly 180-240 lumens. A typical 60 watt incandescent has an  
> > output
> > of about 850-900 lumens. This equates an efficiency of about 33 lumens
> > per watt for these LED units. This is much better than the 15  
> > lumens per
> > watt most tungsten bulbs average, but not as good as your $3 compact
> > fluorescents from the hardware store which should average about 50-55
> > lumens per watt.
> 
> But lumens are misleading -- it's a measure of luminous flux, or  
> total field strength.
> 
> You really need to express it in terms of "luminance" which has an  
> area component. If you express it in lamberts (pi candelas per square  
> centimeter), the LED may light a desktop or sink or kitchen range  
> more efficiently than a CFB could.
> 
> As I said before, LEDs for task lighting, CFBs for area lighting.
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