led color
what color led light did most of you used when you switched to led lights, for example, warm white or cool white or what??
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4x4van wrote:
Google "color temperature", a million color charts; while they may vary a tiny bit, most pretty much agree with each other.
As for what to use in your RV, that's up to you. Many prefer warm, but warm is too yellow/dingy looking for me. I wanted more light when I made the conversion to LEDs. I prefer about 5000K, which is actually the same color as natural noontime daylight; neither blue nor yellow. Once you hit 6000K, it really starts starts to look blue, lower than 4000K looks yellow.
Here's my conversion and pics
Sadly, CONSISTENCY of LEDs with CRI (Color Rendition Index), tends to be rather poor.. Often 50-60 CRI, compared to a 5,000 K (daylight) CFL which is designed for photography use will have very high CRI of 90-99.
The higher the CRI number you get closer to actual color reproduction of the sun.
So, many LEDs (especially cheap LEDs) that are rated 5,000 K tend to be already very high in the BLUE color due to the poor CRI, often having a rather ghastly blue overtone.
For photography use there is specially designed filter gels for LEDs to correct the poor CRI.
It's buyer be aware.
Buy one of each color if you are not sure and try them out before committing to a large order.
