Submitted 4 days ago by UnGlasierteGurke@feddit.org to [deleted]
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You reminded me of one of my favorite lines from Home Improvement when Tim was getting into a Christmas decoration contest with the neighbor across the way and the neighbor responded to Tim putting a searchlight in his front yard:
Kid: “Now he’s got spotlights in his yard.”
Tim pulls out binoculars
Tim: “Those aren’t spotlights! Those are 9,000 watt Xenon SuperTroopers!”
My strongest one is 65k but its focused as hell. Tbh i like edc lights much more. Like having a 65k light is cool but to our eyes its actually only twice as bright as a 13k lumen light and thats only twice as bright as a 2500 lumen one. Tho one thing that does scale to lumen is how large of an area it can light up. So if you light up 1m² with a 2.5k one then a 13k one will light up 5m² comfortably and a 65k one 25m²
At some point you’re just shining your light through his wall.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ackchually you need to remake that meme in illuminance (Lux) and not luminous flux (Lumen). As illuminance is luminous flux per unit area, it is a significantly more accurate representation of the output of a lamp because it considers how focused that light source is. Luminous flux only tells you how much total light output a lamp has, which is meaningless if you have no information of how it is directed.
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