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Dear Sir/Madam,

Today I found very Intresting error, I have used 29 lumens LED, and at detector I was getting 29.6589 lumen, In my setup, LED, Detector (Detector Rectangle), and one more object is there after detector. Separation between LED to detector is 0.001mm, Detector to next object 0.001mm. 

In this setup when I have done the ray trace I found 29.6589 lumen on detector, While LED is of 29 lumen. 

This error might coming because of the reflection form the next object and hitting the detector back, so detector is showing some higher value! To eliminate this reflection I had made the detector as absorbing surface, but still detector is showing power than actual LED power.

Can you please explain me why this is happening? 

(Detector is having the same size as LED (3 X 1.4 mm), also I have enabled the “Front only” option in “Detector Rectangle” row)

 

Thankyou. 

Hi Chandan,

 

Is this error diminishing when you increase the number of rays you trace ?

According to the manual, when using lumens, because of the sampling of the spectrum, you may get some slight inaccuracies:

 

Best regards


Hi Chandan,

 

Is this error diminishing when you increase the number of rays you trace ?

According to the manual, when using lumens, because of the sampling of the spectrum, you may get some slight inaccuracies:

 

Best regards

Thanks for the comment,

 

Yes this error is diminishing when the number of rays, that have to be traced, are increasing (keeping source unit lumen). 

Now understood the problem, why detector is showing this type of behaviour.

 

Thankyou.

 


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