Here's today's question. What is the difference between lumens and watts?

In the world of lightbulbs, especially with incandescents, you were probably at one time, and maybe you still are, used to choosing your lightbulb by the wattage listed on the package.

The wattage gave you a decent indication of how bright the bulb was going to be. In a nut shell, the more watts, the brighter the bulb.

Now that LED’s are coming on strong, things have changed. An LED that uses 60 watts is no where close to a 60 watt incandescent. In fact, a 60-watt LED might just burn the retinas out of your face.

Because LEDs are designed to use less energy they will of course have a lower wattage rating. So now you don’t really want to use the watt rating for your brightness like you probably did before.