Here an LED tube from LED040. The measurements from OliNo show that the lamp emits a warm/neutral white light with a color temperature of 3940 K. The lamp consumes 18.0 W and has a luminous flux of 2250 lm. This results in an efficacy of 125 lm/W. The lamps energy category label is A++.

This article shows the measurement results. Many parameters are also found in the Eulumdat file.

See this overview for a comparison with other light bulbs.

Summary measurement data dated 2017-04-03

parameter	meas. result	remark
Color temperature	3940 K	warm/neutral white
Luminous intensity Iv	503.1 Cd	Measured straight underneath the lamp.
Illuminance modulation index	51 %	Measured with a light sensor looking at the lamp (angle not defined). Is a measure for the amount of flickering.
Beam angle	165 deg	165 deg is the beam angle for the C0-C180-plane (perpendicular to the length direction of the lamp) and 103 deg is the beam angle for the C90-C270 plane, which is along the length direction of the lamp.
Power P	18.0 W	The net power consumed.
Power Factor	0.95	An electrical load with this power factor means that for every 1 kWh net energy consumed, there has been 0.32 kVAhr for reactive energy.
THD	16 %	Total Harmonic Distortion.
Max inrush current	0.738 A	This current has been found at a voltage start angle of 90 degrees.
Luminous flux	2250 lm	Measured with photogoniometer, calculation done as described in LM79-08.
Luminous efficacy	125 lm/W
EU2013-label classification	A++	The energy class, from A++ (more efficient) to E (least efficient). This label is an update of the previous version, and compulsory from Sept 2013.
CRI_Ra	74	Color Rendering Index.
Rf_TM30	73	TM30-15 is an improved indicator (over CRI) of how well colors are rendered.
Rg_TM30	93	Gamut Area Ratio.
Coordinates chromaticity diagram	x=0.3829 en y=0.3844
Fitting	FL-tube	From one side to the grid voltage.
PAR-value	4.2 uMol/s/m2	The number of photons seen by an average plant when it is lit by the light of this light bulb. Value valid at 1 m distance from light bulb.
PAR-photon efficacy	1.0 uMol/s/We	The total emitted number of photons by this light, divided by its consumption in W. It indicates a kind of efficacy in generating photons.
Photon current	31.3 uMol/s	The total number of photons in the light of this lamp.
S/P ratio	1.5	This factor indicates the amount of times more efficient the light of this light bulb is perceived under scotopic circumstances (low environmental light level).
L x W x H external dimensions	1198 mm x 28 mm x 28 mm	External dimensions of the lamp.
L x W x H luminous area	1120 mm x 26 mm x 20 mm	Dimensions of the luminous area (used in Eulumdat file). It is the surface of the white cover.
General remarks		The ambient temperature during the whole set of illuminance measurements was 24.0 – 24.1 deg C.The temperature of the lamp gets maximally about 30 degrees hotter than ambient temperature.Warm up effect: During the warmup time the illuminance doesn’t vary significantly (< 5 %). During the warmup time the power doesn’t vary significantly (< 5 %). The variation in efficacy (calculated as indication by simply dividing the illuminance by the power) during the warming up is -2 %. A very high negative value indicates a significant decrease for instance due to heating up of the lamp (decrease of lifetime). Voltage dependency: There is no (significant) dependency of the illuminance when the power voltage varies between 200 – 250 V AC. There is no (significant) dependency of the consumed power when the power voltage varies between 200 – 250 V AC. At the end of the article an additional photo.
Eff-variation	-2 %	This is the variation in efficacy (calculated as indication by simply dividing the illuminance by the power) during the warming up. A very high negative value indicates a significant decrease for instance due to heating up of the lamp (decrease of lifetime).
Dimmable	no	Info from manufacturer.
Melanopic effect factor	0.486	According to norm DIN SPEC 5031-100:2015-08.
Blue Light Hazard risk group	0	0=exempt, 1=low, 2 = moderate, 3=high risk. Indication value only for straight underneath the lamp.
form factor	tube
article number	T8B120
Measurement report (PDF)
Eulumdat file		Right click on icon and save the file.
IES file		Right click on icon and save the file.

Overview table

Please note that this overview table makes use of calculations, use this data with care as explained on the OliNo site.

EU 2013 Energy label classification

Since Sept 2013 these labels will be needed.

Important for the energy classification are the corrected rated power and the useful luminous flux.
The measured rated power is 18.0 W and might need to be corrected. The correction is dependent from the lamp type and whether or not the lamp control gear is included or not. The choice for this lamp is the following classification: Lamps with own control gear (external or internal). As a result the corrected rated power becomes: 18.0 W.
The luminous flux measured is 2250 lm. The classification of this lamp needed to determine the useful flux is: Non-directional lamps. Then the useful flux becomes 2250 lm. Now a reference power can be calculated.

The energy efficiency coefficient is P_corr / P_ref = 0.11.

EU energy label for this lamp

Zip file with 6 EU energy labels of this lamp

The lamp’s performance in the lumen-Watt field, with the energy efficacy fields indicated.

Eulumdat light diagram

This light diagram below comes from the program Qlumedit, that extracts these diagrams from an Eulumdat file.

The light diagram giving the radiation pattern.

The light diagram indicates the beam in the C0-C180 plane (perpendicular to the length direction of the lamp) and in the plane perpendicular to that, the C90-C270 plane (along the length direction of the lamp).

Illuminance Ev at 1 m distance, or luminous intensity Iv

Herewith the plot of the averaged luminous intensity Iv as a function of the inclination angle with the light bulb.

The radiation pattern of the light bulb.

This radiation pattern is the average of the light output of the light diagram given earlier. Also, in this graph the luminous intensity is given in Cd.

These averaged values are used (later) to compute the lumen output.

Intensity data of every measured turn angle at each inclination angle.

This plot shows per inclination angle the intensity measurement results for each turn angle at that inclination angle. There normally are differences in illuminance values for different turn angles. However for further calculations the averaged values will be used.

When using the average values per inclination angle, the beam angle can be computed, being 165 deg for the C0-C180 plane and 103 deg for the C90-C270 plane.

Luminous flux

With the averaged illuminance data at 1 m distance, taken from the graph showing the averaged radiation pattern, it is possible to compute the luminous flux.

The result of this computation for this light spot is a luminous flux of 2250 lm.

Luminous efficacy

The luminous flux being 2250 lm, and the consumed power of the lamp being 18.0 Watt, results in a luminous efficacy of 125 lm/Watt.

Electrical properties

The power factor is 0.95. An electrical load with this power factor means that for every 1 kWh net energy consumed, there has been 0.32 kVAhr for reactive energy.

Lamp voltage	230.22 V
Lamp current	0.082 A
Power P	18.0 W
Apparent power S	18.9 VA
Power factor	0.95

Of this lamp the voltage across and the resulting current through it are measured and graphed.

Voltage across and current through the lightbulb

This current waveform has been checked on requirements posed by the norm IEC 61000-3-2:2006 (including up to A2:2009).

Harmonics in the current waveform and checked against IEC61000-3-2:2006 and A2:2009

When the consumed power is <= 25 W there are no limits for the harmonics.

The Total Harmonic Distortion of the current is computed and its value is 16 %.

Inrush current

The inrush current has been measured for different voltage start angles; from 0 – 170 degrees with a 10 degrees step. The current- and voltage values have been acquires at a sample speed of 39.9 kS/s. Then this data has been fed into a second order 2kHz low pass Butterworth filter. This removes the current spikes that do not represent relevant values.
The lamp was two minutes off before every inrush current measurement was made.

Test voltage	230.0 V
Frequency of the voltage	50.0 Hz
Maximum inrush current	0.738 A	This current has been found at a voltage start angle of 90 degrees.
Pulse width of max inrush current	3.3E-4 s	This is the time that the pulse is higher than 10 % of the max inrush current.
Minimal inrush current	0.058 A	This current has been found at a voltage start angle of 0 degrees.
I^2 x t after 10 ms at 0 deg voltage start angle	4.000E-6 A	This is the I^2 t value when a zero crossing detector is used to start the voltage from 0 degrees.

Inrush current found at worst-case voltage start angle

First cycle of the maximum inrush current

The energy I²t during the first 10 ms of the first current cycle

Temperature measurements lamp

Temperature image(s).

status lamp	> 2 hours on
ambient temperature	23.8 deg C
reflected background temperature	23.8 deg C
camera	Flir T335
emissivity	0.95
measurement distance	0.5 m
IFOVgeometric	0.136 mm per 0.1 m distance
NETD (thermal sensitivity)	50 mK

Color temperature and Spectral power distribution

The spectral power distribution of this light bulb, energies on y-axis valid at 1 m distance.

The measured color temperature is 3940 K which is warm/neutral white.

This color temperature is measured straight underneath the light bulb. Below a graph showing the color temperature for different inclination angles.

Color temperature as a function of inclination angle.

The color temperature is given for inclination angles up to 90 deg. Beyond that angle has not been measured.

For the C0-C180 plane: the beam angle of 165 deg is equivalent to 82.6 deg inclination angle,which is the area where most of the light falls within. The maximum variation of color temperature in the first 90 degrees of this inclination area is about 1 %.

For the C90-C270 plane: the beam angle of 103 deg is equivalent to 51.7 deg inclination angle,which is the area where most of the light falls within. The maximum variation of color temperature in the first 90 degrees of this inclination area is about 1 %.

PAR value and PAR spectrum

To make a statement how well the light of this light bulb is for growing plants, the PAR-area needs to be determined.

The photon spectrum, then the sensitivity curve and as result the final PAR spectrum of the light of this light bulb

parameter	value	unit
PAR number	4.2	uMol/s/m^2
PAR photon current	18.8	uMol/s
PAR photon efficacy	1.0	uMol/s/W

The PAR efficiency is 63 % (valid for the PAR wave length range of 400 – 700 nm). This is the maximum percentage of the total of photons in the light that is effectively used by the average plant (since the plant might not take 100 % of the photons at the frequency where its relative sensitivity is 100 %).

S/P ratio

The power spectrum, sensitivity curves and resulting scotopic and photopic spectra (spectra energy content defined at 1 m distance).

The S/P ratio of the light coming from this lamp is 1.5.

Chromaticity diagram

The chromaticity space and the position of the lamp’s color coordinates in it.

The point of the light in this diagram is inside the area indicated with class A. This area indicates an area for signal lamps.

The color coordinates are x=0.3829 and y=0.3844.

Color Rendering Index (CRI) or also Ra

Herewith the image showing the CRI as well as how well different colors are represented (rendered). The higher the number, the better the resemblance with the color when a black body radiator would have been used (the sun, or an incandescent lamp)

Each color has an index Rx, and the first 8 indexes (R1 .. R8) are averaged to compute the Ra which is equivalent to the CRI.

CRI of the light of this lightbulb.

This value of 74 indicates how well the light of this lamp can render well a set of reference colors, this in comparison with the light of a reference source (for color temperatures < 5000K a black radiator is used as reference and for color temperatures > 5000K the sun or the light outside during the day).

The value of 74 is smaller than the value of 80 that is considered as a minimum for working areas in general.

Note: the chromaticity difference is 0.0017 and indicates the distance to the Planckian Locus. There is a value mentioned of max 5.4E-3 in section 5.3 of CIE 13.3-1995 however no further explanation of it.
An other reference with signal lights as a reference is given in the chromaticity diagram.

Color quality scale TM-30-15

TM-30-15 is an improved indicator (over CRI) of how well colors are rendered.
TM30-15 Rf = 73, Rg = 93.

TM-30-15-values for 99 samples for the light of this light bulb. The closer the value for a testcolor comes to 100, the more its rendition resembles that of a reference lightsource.

Graphical view of averaged color points for this light bulb compared to a reference source with the same color temperature.

Voltage dependency

The dependency of a number of lamp parameters on the lamp voltage is determined. For this, the lamp voltage has been varied and its effect on the following light bulb parameters measured: illuminance E_v [lx], the lamppower P [W] and the luminous efficacy [lm/W] (this latter is estimated here by dividing the found E_v value by P).

Lamp voltage dependencies of certain light bulb parameters

There is no (significant) dependency of the illuminance when the power voltage varies between 200 – 250 V AC.
There is no (significant) dependency of the consumed power when the power voltage varies between 200 – 250 V AC.

When the voltage varies abruptly with + or – 5 V AC then this results in a variation of the illuminance of maximally 0.0 %. This difference in illuminance is not visible (when it occurs abruptly).

Warm up effects

After switch on of a cold lamp, the effect of heating up of the lamp is measured on illuminance E_v [lx], the lamppower P [W] and the luminous efficacy [lm/W].

Effect of warming up on different light bulb parameters. In the first graph the 100 % level is put at begin, and in the last graph the 100 % level is put at the end.

During the warmup time the illuminance doesn’t vary significantly (< 5 %).

During the warmup time the power doesn’t vary significantly (< 5 %).
The variation in efficacy (calculated as indication by simply dividing the illuminance by the power) during the warming up is -2 %. A very high negative value indicates a significant decrease for instance due to heating up of the lamp (decrease of lifetime).

Measure of flickering

An analysis is done on the measure of flickering of the light output by this light bulb.

The measure of fast illuminance variation of the light of the light bulb

parameter	value	unit
Flicker frequency	100.0	Hz
Illuminance modulation index	51	%
Flicker index	0.184	[-]

The illuminance modulation index is computed as: (max_Ev – min_Ev) / (max_Ev + min_Ev).

Melanopic effect

The melanopic effect shows the level of impact the light of this lamp can have on the day-night rhythm of human beings (as well as the suppression of melatonin production).
The important parameters (according to norm DIN SPEC 5031-100:2015-08):

melanopic effect factor	0.486
kmel trans (25 years)	1.049
kmel trans (32 years)	1.000
kmel trans (50 years)	0.844
kmel trans(75 years)	0.609
kmel trans(90 years)	0.484
kpupil(25 years)	1.088
kpupil(32 years)	1.000
kpupil(50 years)	0.792
kpupil(75 years)	0.543
kpupil(90 years)	0.416

Blue Light Hazard

The amount of blue light and the harm it can cause on the retina has been determined. Herewith the results.

The level of blue light of this lamp related to the exposure limit and the different classification areas.

L_lum0 [mm]	26	Dimension of brightest part of lamp in C0-C180 direction.
L_lum90 [mm]	1120	Dimension of brightest part of lamp in C90-C270 direction.
SSD_500lx [mm]	1003	Calculated distance where Ev = 500 lux. This computation is valid when it is in the far field of the lamp. Note: if this value 200 mm then the distance of 200 mm is taken as proposed in the norm IEC 62471:2006.
Start of far field [mm]	5602	Minimum distance at which the lamp can be seen as apoint source. In this area the Ev is linearly dependent from (1/distance)2.
300-350 nm values stuffed with 0s	yes	In the event OliNo has measured with a SpB1211 spectrometer without UV option then the irradiance data of 300-349 nm is missing. For lamps where there is already no energy content near 350 nm, the values 300-349 can also be set at zero then.
alphaC0-C180 [rad]	0.026	(Apparent) source angle in C0-C180 direction.
alphaC90-C270 [rad]	1.116	(Apparent) source angle in C90-C270 direction.
alphaAVG [rad]	0.063	Average (apparent) source angle. If average >= 0.011 rad then the exposure limit is computed with radiance Lb. Otherwise with irradiance Eb.
Exposure value [W/m^2/sr]	6.78E+0	Blue Light Hazard value for this lamp, measured straight underneath the lamp. Computation is referenced to Lb. Because the distance at 500 lux is in the near field, then this exposure value is too pessimistic and should be lower.
Blue Light Hazard risk group	0	0=exempt, 1=low, 2 = moderate, 3=high risk.

Extra

Additional photos.