Bright Led Flashlight

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How bright is 3 lumens?

I am looking to purchase the Gerber Recon-M Task Light (or regular recon). This light features 4 colors of LED lighting. The website lists the flashlight at 3 lumens. I am only looking to use this flashlight in house, namely a dark basement. Will this be sufficient?

I had to do some research on this one.

We are going to start with a candle.
Here is a quote:

"This one is simple. Get a birthday cake candle. Get a ruler. Stick the candle on one end of the ruler. Light the candle. Turn out the lights. Sing Happy Birthday to Doc. It was his 47th on the 23rd. OK, quiet down. Enough of that nonsense. One foot-candle of light is the amount of light that birthday cake candle generates one foot away."

"A LUMEN is a unit of measurement of light. It measures light much the same way. Remember, a foot-candle is how bright the light is one foot away from the source. A lumen is a way of measuring how much light gets to what you want to light! A LUMEN is equal to one foot-candle falling on one square foot of area."

"So, if we take your candle and ruler, lets place a book at the opposite end from the candle. We'd have a bit of a light up if we put the book right next to the candle, you know. If that book happens to be one foot by one foot, it's one square foot. Ok, got the math done there. Now, all the light falling on that book, one foot away from your candle equals both…….1 foot candle AND one LUMEN!"

A 3 lumen light equals three birthday candles shining on something that is one square foot in size, one foot away.

You can read all from where i got the quotes from on this link:

http://www.theledlight.com/lumens.html

It would seem to be not a very bright light source, but in a dark basement it will work better than a candle.

Wingman

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