Method of calculating the required lighting power and the number of bulbs / light points. Examples in energy saving lighting
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Many people wonder about the recommended light output and the number of bulbs needed. The vagueness and commercial blahs being legion, here is a summary article of the sizing of the lighting of a room.
To begin with, you should know that the lighting power in Lux is a rather subjective quantity: some people will be content without problem with 80 lux in their living room while others will want 300!
Also the type of light (spectrum of lighting) plays a lot: a bulb in natural sunlight will give an impression of much more light while the lumens of the source are the same.
Recommended lighting powers (high scale)
- Stairs, basements, attics: 30 lux
- Garages, hallway, utility room: lux 60
- Kitchen, game room, lounge, dining room, local housework, waiting room: lux 250
- Room, kitchen work and leisure, secretarial and lab: 500 lux
- Entrance hall, shower room, bathroom, children's room, pantry: 720 lux
- Reading, writing, crafts, homework, crafts, drawings, makeup: 750 lux
- Architecture, accurate work, precise control, differentiate colors 7000 lux
Regulatory lighting powers according to wikipedia
- Streets, roads and highways: 15 50 to lux
- intermittent activity or simple task: 125 lux
- average mechanics, office work: 200 lux
- fine mechanics, drawings 400 lux
- precision engineering, electronics: 600 lux
- difficult tasks, laboratories 800 lux
Examples of other common lighting powers (for comparison)
- Sensitivity of a low level camera: 0,001 lux
- Moonlit Night: 0,5 lux
- Well-lit night street: 20 - 70 lux
- Local life: 100 - 200 lux
- Well-lit apartment: 200 - 400 lux
- Work room: 200 - 3 lux
- night stadium: 1 500 lux
- Outside overcast sky 25 000 lux
- Outdoors in direct sunlight: 50 000 100 000 to lux
The disparity of these values confirms my first remark on the subjectivity of lighting.
Calculation method of lighting design
It's pretty simple.
- 1 Lux = 1 Lumens / m²
- With the surface of the room to be lit and the desired number of lux, you obtain a number of Lumens.
- By knowing the Lumens per bulb, you have the number of bulbs necessary to install and therefore of light points / wall lights / lights to install.
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