Lumens vs Kelvins

[tstevens]

Question to all the lighting guru's out there:

I was wondering if Lumens can be Converted into Kelvins?

ex 800 Lumens = ???K

Just wondering,

Troy Stevens

[Aquattro]

Nope, just looked up some stuff. Lumens are units that measure how bright, or rather how much light hits a certain area at a certain distance (or something like that).

KELVIN. This describes the color temperature or the description of warmth or coolness of a light source. When a piece of metal is heated, the color of light it emits will change. This color begins as red and graduates to orange, yellow, white and then to blue-white and finally to deeper shades of blue.

so no correlation exists between the two.

[powerboy]

kelvin is a unit of absolute temperature, where as lumens is the unit of luminous flux equal to one candle intensity. the lumen is the time rate of flow of light.

[tstevens]

Ok that makes more sense now, thanks for the info.

I'm trying to figure a way to build a DIY "poor-mans" pc setup for a fuge or a small frag cutting tank. I have access to several smaller pc bulbs ranging from 7W to 26W, just don't know the colour temp. The only listing is 800 lumens.

Is this possible or should I just bite the bullet and buy a pc retrofit kit?

[tstevens]

Anyone have any ideas or input on this one for me?

[AJ_77]

Originally Posted by tstevens

I have access to several smaller pc bulbs ranging from 7W to 26W

You're going to need a bigger bulb, and more of them. 7-26W is next to nothing, unless you have a bank of them. Look at something in the 55-65W range to start. Lots of possibilities there.

Oh, and 6400 K or higher for a nice look. I got some 55W 6500K PC bulbs at Brite-Lite for around 15 bucks each. They're pretty crisp.