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By Julian

Youtuber, shed dweller, solar charge controller aficionado

16 thoughts on “How to measure lumens with a lux meter”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Bisdak CEBU says:

    1 JOHN 1:5

    This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light ,and in Him there is no darkness at all.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Chief Electrical Engineer PWD says:

    thank you

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars theory816 says:

    I think the measurement is right because the meter has a tolerance level around 3%

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Stu says:

    Why didn't you use a torch?

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars jsigmo says:

    Excellent coverage of the subject, making it easy for all to understand. Thanks!

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars DoDo says:

    Hello. Good thinking, but….this 0.282 is the diameter and not the radius……with whatever that might mean.! Good job

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars kay bhee says:

    retest incand bulb ,, huh

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Joseph Soosay says:

    Your formula for calculating the area of a circle is incorrect.

    It should be "A=πr2".

    It is not "A=4πr2".

    Not sure why I managed to remember a formula from my school days of about 4 decades ago, a formula that I hardly ever need to use, but there you have it.

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Doug Golde says:

    The problem with LED replacements for automotive signal lamps is the reflector is designed to work with a specific filament location.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars phykell says:

    Your light meter is similar to my own so it may have an adjustment feature which will allow you to calibrate it and is ideal for when there is some ambient light in your test area. Set the meter up, adjust the reading to zero and then switch on the light source under test.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars chinni r cninni ma says:

    Very nice video

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Anthony A says:

    28.2cm or 11.10” or 11” 3.5/32” to determine Lux

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars vogel says:

    Never been any good at math. I was able to count may wages and my change from shopping, but square roots and bla bla bla was not needed in my daily thoughts until I watched this.Thx, nicely explained.

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars happyfish says:

    I searched high and low, you are the only person that answered all my questions. I just got a par meter today and was wondering light distance from light source to my meter. 11 inches. I figured 12 so I was close. Ty so much

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars AsBi Unboxings says:

    Nice effort.

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Patrick Jacobsen says:

    I've always wanted to know at what distance these lumen counts on the light bulb packaging was taken and now I know thank you.

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