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Steven Houtzager
 Post subject: efficacy setting
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:21 am 
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When setting up an emitter and setting the watts, there is a setting next to watts called efficacy. It has been set to 17. If it is ramped up to 50 the light has more than twice the power. I know what efficacy means but what purpose does it have? Why not just create a more powerful emitter?

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To be able to translate data from real life bulbs ( I was going to write emitters, ha).

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Steven Houtzager
 Post subject: efficacy setting
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What should the setting be to simulate a "new" bulb?

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When you buy a bulb it usually comes written in the box or you can check manufacturers' website, anyway, you can take a look at the materials that come with Maxwell installation:

Maxwell\materials database\mxm files\ateam's special\jomaga\

There you have a nice collection of common light bulbs mxms and a preview image. It's supposed to be made from real life data.

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