An incandescent (old school) bulb may use 40 watts to create just 300 to 500 lumens, and a full 150-250 watts for the 1250+ lumens. For example, an LED light bulb uses just 2-4 watts to produce 200 to 300 lumens, but 13 to 20 watts to produce upwards of 1250 lumens. The above table from our friends at AnyLamp depicts the general wattage used to create a certain number of lumens. Typically, the higher the lumens (light output), the more wattage (energy) is needed to generate that light.

Wattage, on the other hand, indicates the amount of energy that light source uses.

Lumen (as we saw above) is the term used to describe the total amount of light emitted by a light source.

AnyLamp has a nice, easy-to-understand explanation: There is a pretty simple difference between the two. You bought those bulbs based on wattage, never thinking about how many lumens they gave off (mainly because lumens hadn’t yet been established at that time). You know what I’m talking about: those old-school light bulbs were 40 watts, 60 watts, 100 watts, and so on. Often, when researching flashlights (and pretty much any kind of light in general), you’ll run into products that mention “X number of lumens” while others say “X number of watts”. Watts are all about the energy required to make the light, while lumens are the amount of light/brightness the light emits. Best of all, it’s IP56 dustproof and waterproof. The rechargeable battery pack (which is included) is easy to connect to DC power when you’re running low. Thanks to the OLED display, you can always see where your battery life is at. With an ultra-wide beam of 1350 meters, it’s the perfect camping companion, with nine mode settings (between 700 lumens and 100,000 lumens) that let you choose how bright you want it. So basically the 100,000-lumen light really only runs for a minute at a time, but while it lasts, you’ve got essentially a portable sun in your hand.

After that (if your eyeballs have survived), it drops down to 25,000 lumens, and runs for an additional 46 minutes before the battery needs re-charging. There’s just one caveat to that: the manufacturer states that on “turbo” setting, it can generate 100,000 lumens, but only for up to one minute.

Yes, you read that right: this flashlight is capable of generating an eye-searing, blindness-inducing 100,000 lumens! That’s enough to light up even the darkest night-absolutely insane brightness.

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