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    The document discusses recommended light levels, or illuminance, for various indoor and outdoor activities. It provides measurements in both foot candles and lux and examples of common light levels for different outdoor conditions ranging from full sunlight to starlight. Recommended indoor illuminance levels are given for activities like office work, drawing, retail spaces, and medical facilities, ranging from 20 lux for simple tasks to over 10,000 lux for very specialized visual tasks. A formula is also provided for calculating illuminance from factors like lumens per lamp, coefficient of utilization, light loss factor, and area.

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    The document discusses recommended light levels, or illuminance, for various indoor and outdoor activities. It provides measurements in both foot candles and lux and examples of common light levels for different outdoor conditions ranging from full sunlight to starlight. Recommended indoor illuminance levels are given for activities like office work, drawing, retail spaces, and medical facilities, ranging from 20 lux for simple tasks to over 10,000 lux for very specialized visual tasks. A formula is also provided for calculating illuminance from factors like lumens per lamp, coefficient of utilization, light loss factor, and area.

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    The document discusses recommended light levels, or illuminance, for various indoor and outdoor activities. It provides measurements in both foot candles and lux and examples of common light levels for different outdoor conditions ranging from full sunlight to starlight. Recommended indoor illuminance levels are given for activities like office work, drawing, retail spaces, and medical facilities, ranging from 20 lux for simple tasks to over 10,000 lux for very specialized visual tasks. A formula is also provided for calculating illuminance from factors like lumens per lamp, coefficient of utilization, light loss factor, and area.

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    The document discusses recommended light levels, or illuminance, for various indoor and outdoor activities. It provides measurements in both foot candles and lux and examples of common light levels for different outdoor conditions ranging from full sunlight to starlight. Recommended indoor illuminance levels are given for activities like office work, drawing, retail spaces, and medical facilities, ranging from 20 lux for simple tasks to over 10,000 lux for very specialized visual tasks. A formula is also provided for calculating illuminance from factors like lumens per lamp, coefficient of utilization, light loss factor, and area.

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    Illuminance - Recommended Light Levels

    Recommended light levels - illuminance - for some common types of working activities
    Light Level or Illuminance, is the total luminous flux incident on a surface, per unit area. The work plane is where the most important tasks in the room or space are performed.

    Measuring Units Light Level - Illuminance


    Illumenance is measured in foot candles (ftcd, fc, fcd) (or lux in the metric SI system). A foot candle is actually one lumen of light density per square foot, one lux is one lumen per square meter.

    1 lux = 1 lumen / sq meter = 0.0001 phot = 0.0929 foot candle (ftcd, fcd) 1 phot = 1 lumen / sq centimeter = 10000 lumens / sq meter = 10000 lux 1 foot candle (ftcd, fcd) = 1 lumen / sq ft = 10.752 lux

    Common Light Levels Outdoor


    Common light levels outdoor at day and night can be found in the table below:

    Illumination Condition (ftcd) Sunlight Full Daylight Overcast Day Very Dark Day Twilight Deep Twilight Full Moon 10,000 1,000 100 10 1 .1 .01 (lux) 107,527 10,752 1,075 107 10.8 1.08 .108

    Illumination Condition (ftcd) Quarter Moon Starlight Overcast Night .001 .0001 .00001 (lux) .0108 .0011 .0001

    Common and Recommended Light Levels Indoor


    The outdoor light level is approximately 10,000 lux on a clear day. In the building, in the area closest to windows, the light level may be reduced to approximately 1,000 lux. In the middle area its may be as low as 25 - 50 lux. Additional lighting equipment is often necessary to compensate the low levels. Earlier it was common with light levels in the range 100 - 300 lux for normal activities. Today the light level is more common in the range 500 - 1000 lux - depending on activity. For precision and detailed works, the light level may even approach 1500 - 2000 lux. The table below is a guidance for recommended light level in different work spaces:

    Activity

    Illumination (lux, lumen/m2) 20 - 50 50 - 100 100 - 150 150 250 500

    Public areas with dark surroundings Simple orientation for short visits Working areas where visual tasks are only occasionally performed Warehouses, Homes, Theaters, Archives Easy Office Work, Classes

    Normal Office Work, PC Work, Study Library, Groceries, Show Rooms,

    Activity Laboratories Supermarkets, Mechanical Workshops, Office Landscapes Normal Drawing Work, Detailed Mechanical Workshops, Operation Theatres Detailed Drawing Work, Very Detailed Mechanical Works Performance of visual tasks of low contrast and very small size for prolonged periods of time Performance of very prolonged and exacting visual tasks Performance of very special visual tasks of extremely low contrast and small size

    Illumination (lux, lumen/m2)

    750 1,000 1500 - 2000

    2000 - 5000

    5000 - 10000

    10000 - 20000

    Calculating Illumination
    Illumination can be calculated as I = Ll Cu LLF / Al where I = illumination (lux, lumen/m2) Ll = lumens per lamp (lumen) Cu = coefficient of utilation LLF = light loss factor Al = area per lamp (m2) (1)

    Example - Illumination
    10 incandencent lamps of 500 W (10600 lumens per lamp) are used in an area of 50 m2. With Cu = 0.6 and LLF = 0.8 illumination can be calculated as

    I = 10 (10600 lumens) (0.6) (0.8) / (50 m2) = 1018 lux

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