We’ve been doing that the whole time. CFL’s were rated in equivalent Watts as well, because that’s what people know. To this day I couldn’t tell you what the lumen rating of a 100w incandescent bulb put out, but I know the relative brightness from experience. Considering there are people who may have never actually owned an incandescent bulb it may be time to focus on that? Who knows. Also there’s still the selling point of “Our bulb uses 10% of what a “real” light bulb uses!”
Are we still rating bulbs in watts?
We’ve been doing that the whole time. CFL’s were rated in equivalent Watts as well, because that’s what people know. To this day I couldn’t tell you what the lumen rating of a 100w incandescent bulb put out, but I know the relative brightness from experience. Considering there are people who may have never actually owned an incandescent bulb it may be time to focus on that? Who knows. Also there’s still the selling point of “Our bulb uses 10% of what a “real” light bulb uses!”
Yeah that’s the problem haha
More like “oh man, only 60 watts, that’s not very bright”.
Sorry…but watts the problem?
It’s a metric that isn’t really current.
The inaccuracy really gets me amped.
Careful not to get to charged up about it, joule lose your mind!