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A word about 50W LED's equvalency

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philip-coxPhilip Cox 06/17/2019 at 15:182 Comments

Using a chart from Wikipedia (link here), I created the following chart in order to get some equivalency between bulbs and LED illumination:

The wiki chart only goes up to 300 W (incandescent), so I curve fit the data to get some idea of higher values.   Since the polynomial curve fits show a round off beyond 300, I use the linear fit.  According to that, a 50 Watt LED produces the same radiant power as a 350 Watt incandescent bulb – that should be 106 W for compact fluorescent bulbs. Of course, only the linear curve fit gets to 50W ….

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Philip Cox wrote 06/18/2019 at 15:06 point

just weird autospacing from hackaday's blog editor ... your comment prompted me to try editing the entry again ... hope this looks better ... also, I edited out "consumes" and replaced it with "produces" .... which is what I meant to show with the chart ... thanks.

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Richard Hogben wrote 06/17/2019 at 20:31 point

Hey was there an issue uploading the first photo?

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