Originally Posted by timmyag
There seems to be a lot of confusion between light output and watts here they are in no way the same thing.
Yes yes yes, we're not confused on that point, we're just being a bit loose with the terminology.
People certainly do get this confused around here quite a bit, though. (If we want to get picky about
it, even lumens are a dodgy measure, because they depend on the specific spectrum of the light.)
The rest of what ya said is a nice summary, BTW. Apparently halogen lumens/Watt fall strongly as
a function of Watts, which I only noticed last night, though I'm not quite sure off-hand exactly why
they can't get the same lumens/watt out of a well-designed tiny halogen.