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What is Foot-candle?

April 09, 2019

A foot-candle (sometimes foot candle; abbreviated fc, lm/ft2, or sometimes ft-c) is a non-SI unit of illuminance or light intensity. One foot-candle represents "the illuminance cast on a surface by a one-candela source one foot away." This unit is commonly used in lighting layouts in parts of the world where United States customary units are used.

The unit foot-candle is defined as the amount of illumination the inside surface of a one-foot-radius sphere would be receiving if there were a uniform point source of one candela in the exact center of the sphere. Alternatively, it can be defined as the illuminance on a one-square foot surface of which there is a uniformly distributed flux of one lumen.

Thus one foot-candle is equal to one lumen per square foot or approximately 10.764 lux.
1 foot-candle= 1 lumen per square foot = 10.764 lux

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