It boggles the mind the 'erroneous' or misleading specs that manufacturers are willing to publish- in the interest of marketing. For the Luxeon project, we elected to publish the Manufacturer specs for output and run-times for 2 reasons-
1- It would put the burden of proof on the manufacturers rather than us.
2- It would let those other reviewers with meters carry the cost of testing the lights for accurate output.
It becomes a problem when the manufacturers then poison the well by pulling the specs off of thier websites- forcing us to edit them on our reviews. So far, KJ and a couple of others are the only 'labs' that deliver metrics we can trust on output/run-times. I wish they would send us thier bottom line numbers for the lights we've evaluated ( not TESTED ) - so we could publish them. We are not an electronics testing lab so we don't even try that part.
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wholeflaffer said:
Thanks for the info! I hope you took what I said
as constructive criticism instead of vitreol. Any
reliable info is better than no info OR wrong info!
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