Out kitchen has a cruddy old fluorescent tube for lighting, which we are planning to replacd with an LED batten light.
The current fluoresent tube is rated at 5200 lumens, and the LED batten we are looking at comes in either 4400 or 6600 lumens.
6600 lumens sounds to bright, but I'm not sure of 4400 will be too dim.
But is it an apples for apples comparision?
The fluorescent tube emits light in all directions, where the LED directs the light downward (120 degree beam angle) - so would we actually get better illumination from the 4400 lumen LED compared to the 5200 fluorescent since no light is wasted shooting upwards?