My partner is driving me up a wall with “No one thinks about kelvins, just buy the 40W!” and I’m over here trying to explain why I’m taking time picking bulbs in a certain Kelvin range and figuring out the needed lumens for a room.
Bonus points for a simple diagram or a true (emphasis on 5) explanation I can link to her.
Cheers!
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Kelvin or color temperature is the color on a yellow to blue scale (2800K is very yellow almost orange, 3200-3400 is kinda yellow but it is what we are used to for lighting inside a house is at night, 5000k is daylight whiteish but bluer than what we’re used to in the house, 6500k or anything higher is very blue compared to what we’re used to in a house).
Watts or Lumens are more related to brightness. Lumens is actual brigtheness. Wattage is equivalent to how bright a similar old school tungsten bulb would have been. 60w tungsten (pretty standard) was around 900 lumens. 40w tungsten was around 600lm (more often what is used in ovens and maybe bathroom fixtures with multiple lights). 75w or 1200ish lumen was a brighter indoor bulb if you needed something more than 60w.
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