Lumens/watts/temperature in LED lightbulbs to someone who just doesn’t get the phrase ‘Incandescent Equivalent’

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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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Buy a smart bulb and you can directly show them the difference in color temperature and intensity. Not a lot to say otherwise.

Temperature = what it looks like, watts = how much power it uses, lumens = how much light you get.

You could go into *why* color temperature is that way and what black body radiation is but I don’t imagine that’s going to be helpful in picking out bulbs.

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