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This may be a bit OT, but I feel like it's unfortunate that "watts" (i.e. power consumption) is the default unit used in lighting. It's like measuring the spee
by x1798DE 10y ago
This may be a bit OT, but I feel like it's unfortunate that "watts" (i.e. power consumption) is the default unit used in lighting. It's like measuring the speed of a car in miles per gallon.
Seems like it's changing a bit after CFLs came out and they started putting luminosity outputs on the packaging, but I think people still mostly go by "incandescent watt equivalent".
- fulafel 10y agoPower = energy flow per unit time. So you can talk about radiation output, radiant flux as it's called in physics, in terms of watts: 683 lm of light at 555 nm wavelength equals 1 joules/second (=1 watt) in radiant flux[1]. 20 kW in light output would be about 14 megalumens. [1] http://www.dfisica.ubi.pt/~hgil/fotometria/HandBook/ch07.html http://www.dfisica.ubi.pt/~hgil/fotometria/HandBook/ch07.htm...
- alok-g 10y agoGallons per hour would be a better analogy.