Luxeon map light?

Mar 05, 2007 5 Replies

Does anyone make a wired and dash mounted map light for the car with several luxeon LED's in it? Something that puts out some really significant lumens, for example 200 lumens?


A lumen is equal to 1 foot-foot candle falling over a 1 square foot area. FYI, a typical office is 50 to 100 foot candles, so I would think that the glare from 200 lumens would make your night vision so bad that it would take

20 minutes to be able to see in the dark again. I would imagine that 25 to 50 lumens would be more than enough to read by.

Here is a commercial quality hard wired map light:

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jcwhitney.com also has map lights

Here are some aircraft cockpit lights:

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LED with luxeons?

Could someone please address my original question, without tangents?

I think it was Big Mama Bear who stated:

You get ONE answer and already with the whining?

I think that puts the kibosh on anything useful anyone else might have wanted to share -- NOBODY likes a whiner!

I really wouldn't get hung up on the Luxeon name. Luxeon is just one brand of high-power LED (out of three or four) that has happens to have good marketing to the end user.

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