well, I wish they make bigger batteries for these million cp beams, as automotive headlamps they are rather underused in there applications...when your looking at a 40 minute runtime.
Rando said:
I've often wished that there was a calculator or something to compare, apples to apples, the different measurements in candela, lumens, and candlepower.
Well, esentially speaking, candela [size=-1]is a unit of luminous intensity, describing the intensity of a light source in a specific direction. A luemen is a unit of luminous flux, [/size][size=-1]or total light output from electric sources. A uniform source of one candlepower placed in a sphere emits 12.57 lumens or mean spherical candela equals to 12.57 lumens. and candlepower [/size][size=-1]is the basic unit for measuring luminous intensity from a light source in a given direction, its nickname is candela.
The calculator doesnt exist...its like trying to compare an apple to an orange and an orange to cherries... candlepower represents intensity of the light and Lumens represents the flux aka the amount of light passing through the observation point in one second, hence "total" light.
Open to suggestions, constructive critcism strongly appreciated...
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