The wattage will be between 13 and 15 watts.
Cfl light bulbs wattage equivalents.
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A 40 watt incandescent filament bulb produces roughly 460 lumens.
To replace a 60 watt incandescent light bulb choose an led or cfl bulb that gives you 800 lumens.
A 60 watt equivalent cfl bulb from philips for example consumes 13 watts and has a rated lifetime of 12 000 hours or about 11 years when lit for three hours a day but retails for only 1 50.
Because of the heat sink in the base light doesn t disperse downwards as much as a typical incandescent candelabra bulb.
Here is a table to help you find the corresponding lumens and wattage to your old incandescent bulbs.
The chart below illustrates the amount of brightness in lumens you can expect from different wattages of light bulbs.
Watts chart below to shop for the right light bulb for your space.
Some cfl and led bulbs will put their wattage equivalents on the box while many don t so this chart should help give you a good idea of how bright your new bulb is going to be.
Lumen wattage comparison.
For example a correct replacement for a 60w incandescent bulb would be a 15 watt cfl bulb 60 1 4 15.
Incandescent equivalent in general a simple rule to follow to replace an incandescent with an equivalent in light output cfl bulb is to select the cfl bulb that has 1 4 watts compared with the replaced incandescent bulb.
An equivalent compact fluorescents cfl bulb in light output lumens should consume only around 7 watts and leds approximately 6 watts.
Designed to replace incandescent candelabra bulbs these flame tip leds deliver the equivalent light of 25 35 watt incandescent while only drawing 3 5 watts of electricity.
Led bulbs require much less wattage than cfl or incandescent light bulbs which is why leds are more energy efficient and longer lasting than their competitors.
The equivalent of a 13 watt compact fluorescent cfl light bulb is between 40 and 60 watts of power from an incandescent light bulb which corresponds to between 450 and 800 lumens.
Cfl light bulb wattage led equivalent wattage 20 watt 12 watt 15 watt 9 watt 9 watt 5 5 watt 5 watt 3 watt led equivalents to fluorescent tube lights led tube lights use between 40 and 50 less energy than fluorescent tube lights which is of course comparable to cfls that utilise the same technology.