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The document discusses various units used to measure light and luminous properties such as lumen, candela, lux, and footcandle. It then provides information about the efficacy, life, relight time, fixture cost, operating cost, light direction control, and lumen maintenance of different types of lighting sources including high pressure sodium, low pressure sodium, metal halide, fluorescent, mercury vapor, and tungsten halogen lamps. Ratings are provided with the most efficient or desirable property ranked as 1 and the least efficient or desirable as 6.

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Lighting

The document discusses various units used to measure light and luminous properties such as lumen, candela, lux, and footcandle. It then provides information about the efficacy, life, relight time, fixture cost, operating cost, light direction control, and lumen maintenance of different types of lighting sources including high pressure sodium, low pressure sodium, metal halide, fluorescent, mercury vapor, and tungsten halogen lamps. Ratings are provided with the most efficient or desirable property ranked as 1 and the least efficient or desirable as 6.

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+jeremiah sunga queddeng center for the designed environment professions +Units of Light Luminous Flux rate of flow

w of light per unit time Lumen unit of luminous flux Luminous Intensity luminous flux emitted per unit of solid angle by light source Candela unit of intensity per square meter Luminance quantitative measure of brightness of light source Lambert unit of luminance per square meter Foot Lamnert unit of luminance per square foot Illumination intensity of light falling on a lighted surface Lux unit of illumination per square meter Footcandle unit of illumination per square foot Phot Unit of illumination per square centimeter

+Efficacy ratio of luminous output to input powers in watts (lumens per watts) Low Pressure Sodium up to 180 High Pressure Sodium 75-140 Metal Halide 80-100 Fluorescent 55 - 100 Mercury 50-60 Tungsten Halogen 15-25 +Life (Hours) High Pressure Sodium 1 Mercury Vapor 2 Low Pressure Sodium 3 Fluorescent 4 Metal Halide 5 Tungsten Halogen 6 +Relight Time Low Pressure Sodium Immediate Fluorescent Immediate Tungsten Halogen Immediate High Pressure Sodium Less than a minute Mercury 3-10 minutes Metal Halide 10 20 minutes +Fixture Cost

High Pressure Sodium 1 Low Pressure Sodium 1 Metal Halide - 2 Mercury - 3 Fluorescent 4 Tungsten Halogen 5 +Operating Cost (lowest to highest) High Pressure Sodium 1 Low Pressure Sodium 2 Metal Halide - 3 Mercury - 5 Fluorescent 5 Tungsten Halogen 6 +Light Direction Control Tungsten Halogen Very good to excellent High Pressure Sodium Very Good Metal Halide Very Good Mercury Very Good Low Pressure Sodium Fair Fluorescent Fair +Lumen Maintenance High Pressure Sodium 1 Low Pressure Sodium 1 Mercury Vapor 2 Metal Halide 3 Fluorescent 4 Tungsten Halogen 5

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