From your guide to fittings to understanding watts, lumen and kelvins, here’s how to get the ambience right as the nights draw in ...

LED, halogen, CFL and incandescent and the main types of light bulbs available, although incandescent lights are no longer ...

A bulb’s lumens denote the brightness of the light produced. Lumens are directly related to watts in that the higher the watts, the brighter the light. A 10-watt LED bulb emits about 700 lumens ...

Which types of bulbs are part of the ban? Light bulbs that produce less than 45 lumens per watt are affected by the ban. Light bulbs that produce less than 45 lumens per watt are affected by the ban.

Compared to incandescent lightbulbs, LEDs produce a lot more lumens per watt of input power — they’re more efficient at producing light. Of course, that means that incandescent light bulbs ...