

Define lightFoot Candles:
- How bright the light is one foot away from the source.
Lumens:
- Each unit of measurement of light. A lumen is a way of measuring
how much light that gets to what you want to light! A LUMEN is equal to
one foot-candle falling on one square foot of area.
Radiance:
- Is another way of saying how much energy is released from that
light source
Illuminance
- Is the intensity or degree to which something is illuminated and
is therefore not the amount of light produced by the lightsource.
LUX
- Is the measurement of actual light available at a given distance.
A lux equals one lumen incident per square meter of illuminated surface
area. They are measuring the same thing, just using different measurement
units.
Candela
- Nowadays we use the term CANDELA instead of candlepower.
Candlepower, or CANDELA is a measure of how much light the bulb
produces, measured at the bulb, rather than how much falls upon the
thing you want to light up. Further confusing the matter is beam focus.
That's how much candlepower can be focused using a reflector/lens
assembly. Obviously, if you project all your light bulbs intensity at a
given spot, or towards something, it will be more intense, and the
illuminance will be higher.
- For you figuring out LED equivalents, first you must know how
many lumens your LED's each produce. Then divide that value by 12.57 and
you have candlepower of the LED. You don't have foot-candles, remember
foot-candles are illuminance. And we are measuring radiance.
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