BRENT in 10-uh-C wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 6:07 pm
Do you think the units you are showing have a greater lumen output than the new units that I posted a link to?
Brent,
There are several different units available with the same base configuration. They appear to range between 250 - 900 lumens, and 3W - 10W.
I have two types here, one was rated at 3W, the other at 5W, I don't recall now what their lm rating was. Subjectively they are quite good as a reading light and I find them adequate to light up a room (I run pretty much everything off low-voltage solar here), in my view they'd be fine as a carbide light replacement but YMMV!
I hesitate to make any useful comment as to whether they would have a higher luminous flux than the ones you reference, it's been my experience that the specification of these things can be a bit 'loose', but on the face of it I suspect you could get units that would be just the same, or brighter (or dimmer) as you wish. Note that you can also get them as 'dimmable' units, should that be useful.
What I tend to do is get more than I need, from multiple vendors, and evaluate them from there to determine what I'd get in future should I need more. This is what I did for the headlamp units now residing in my Model A. I now have several sets that are just 'ok' and one set that is perfect and I know what to get if I want more. For the units you're wanting I'd expect less variation and more certainty that pretty much whatever you got is likely to be fine - perhaps get two or more each of 5W 8W and 10W units to see what you think?
Luke.