Lumens refer to the potential amount of light emitted from the source area in an ideal world, based on each individual LED chip's rating multiplied by the total number of LED chips in the light assembly.
The issue with selecting an LED based only on its Lumen count is that the measurement only paints a theoretical picture of the LED’s performance. Lumens are “a unit of luminous flux equal to the light emitted in a unit solid angle by a uniform point source of one candle intensity.” Lumens tell us how much light a light source should emit in the immediate area around it. LIGHTS WITH THE MOST LUMENS ARE THE BEST, RIGHT?
