Lumens vs Kelvins
 

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.