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My first LED that I bought ($45) about 7 or 8 years ago is a one watt LED and is not very bright, you can read by it if it's pointing at your book, get it far enough from a news paper to light both pages and it starts to fade out a little, my newest LED ($11) is 1.1 watts and is much brighter, it lights up my entire room and I use it as a task light over my desk and is a multi directional LED, really it's 18 LED's, 6 on each side of a pyramid where that old LED I have is a single LED that is set up as a spot light and the spot is not as bright from the same distance as the new multi LED cluster.
At some point this winter there is talk of an LED party among some of my friends, the idea is to get people who are interested in LED's together to see what they look like in real life, I see this kind of gathering as important because there is no other real good way to compare what people have bought online to what you can buy in a store to what you bought at an event from a vendor who had a display, I hope someone brings a light meter so we can get some real life numbers on how bright they are.
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