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Submitted: Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:17

ERIC DRUMMOND

Could anybody give me the wattage of torches sold as 2,000,000 candle power.
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AnswerID: 224859   Submitted: Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 07:09

Member No 1 replied:

i dont think you can convert candle power to watts
watts is power cunsumption and i beleive candle power relates to lumens? or something....


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FollowupID: 485832   Submitted: Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 07:13

Member No 1 posted:

not often i am wrong but this time i was ...candle power is candella


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FollowupID: 485835   Submitted: Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 07:20

Member No 1 posted:

bloody hell wrong again.....
candlepower is exactly that
candela is exactly that
lumens is exactly
watt did i say

watts is the power consumed to produce say 1 lumen
candle power, candela and lumens is the output

for example manufacturer A may use i watt/lumen while manufacturer B may only use .5watt/lumen (exagerated example)

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FollowupID: 485873   Submitted: Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:41

Voxson posted:

You useless bar-stool... lol....
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FollowupID: 485902   Submitted: Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:22

Member No 1 posted:

its only been twice today....

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FollowupID: 485904   Submitted: Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:44

Voxson posted:

Did chris end up working out who you are? "christec"
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FollowupID: 485905   Submitted: Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:50

Member No 1 posted:

Yes he did


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FollowupID: 485939   Submitted: Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 16:53

Pajman Pete (SA) posted:

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AnswerID: 224860   Submitted: Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 07:10

Robin replied:

Around 50w - varies a bit , as candle power they use is really reffering to how tight or fine the beam is focussed.

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FollowupID: 485868   Submitted: Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:10

Kiwi Kia posted:

It does not really mean much. They are saying that the light at a certain distance from the lens is 'equivalent to' 2,000,000 candles. Some lamps are filled with exotic gases (xenon etc.) and give a different candle power output then say an ordinary filament in a vacuum for the same power (wattage) consumed.
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AnswerID: 224907   Submitted: Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 11:33

Auntie replied:

I wouldn't worry about getting a torch. Just try to get one of those candles that they use in the movies. The candle that Allan Quartermain used in King Solomons mine was better than the very best set of Hellas !!!
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AnswerID: 224944   Submitted: Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 16:23

Mike Harding replied:

If it's one of those which use a SLA battery my advice is forget it. 2M CP will use a _stack_ of power from the battery and the damn things always go flat when you need them most and take a few hours to recharge. Additionally most (all?) of them don't have anything to stop you flattening the battery down to zero so it ends up with a very short life.

Take a look at some of the new LED torches on the market - some very impressive stuff there now.

Mike Harding
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AnswerID: 225000   Submitted: Friday, Mar 02, 2007 at 23:50

Member - Alex K (NSW) replied:

Candle power is crap. It's impossible to use as reference. On another note, I purchased an LED globe (well 3-in-1 actually) a couple of days go from Jaycar which replaces the std one in the dual AA battery Mag Light. My Opinion is that it's much brighter than the std globe but doesn’t focus like the std one does.
So if you're using it for broad beam then it's great, otherwise not so. About $15, Plus they say it saves battery life like, you know, ever bleep ing other LED something on the market.

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AnswerID: 225612   Submitted: Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007 at 13:19

Member - Phil G (SA) replied:

They usually take a 12v H1 globe, which is either 55watt or 100watt.
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AnswerID: 226104   Submitted: Thursday, Mar 08, 2007 at 16:12

Mainey (WA) replied:

When using my 1,OOO,OOO Candle power torch it's capable of seeing crocodiles eyes at so many hundreds of mtrs it's not scarey any more, you don't want to see them up close because the Barra probably won't be in the same area as the crocks.

At probably 1/2 Klm I can see as clear as day with-in the lit up area.

Battery stats are:
cycle use 7.25v - 7.45v
standby use 6.8v - 6.9v

It has a 6v - 55w globe
and that's only 1x million Candle Power

It recharges direct off my Inverter
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