Shortly after placing the superbrightleds.com order for the two 27W LED lamps I noticed something strange on the website.. that the actual power draw was only 13W? This upset me a bit for two reasons.
1. My price comparison is bunk. Maybe I didn't select the best deal?
2. I could have bought less battery for my goal of 2 hour run time.
I fired up the tech support chat and.. well the guy tried to school me on how to calculate watts. I was not amused. The mystery went unsolved until I received the order.
Using a lab supply of decent enough accuracy I determined the power draw to be closer to 18W. OK, so that doesn't actually answer anything. But I can say that it's bright enough to turn my office into daylight.
At $50ea they weren't that cheap but so far I'm glad I went this route instead of trying to put together discrete LED's. There's a built-in constant current driver which accepts a large Vin range and a nice weatherproof housing..
Batt V started at 13.2V and drained to 12.7V and a fairly linear rate.
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