Color of LED bulbs
As I start my search for LED bulbs to replace bulbs in my camper I am in total confusion about what I am looking at. When buying incadencent bulbs you by by wattage....you do not put a 20 watt bulb i...
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LEDs are pretty much monochromatic, so colors are achieved by using combinations of emitters and filters, trying to approximate the color temperature of a black body (incandescent) emitter, much as was done for fluorescent lamps.
There will be names like "warm white" or "cool white" or "daylight" and maybe a degrees Kelvin range to suggest comparison to an incandescent source, but don't expect a typical color temperature curve, the light will be a spike somewhere in that range.
Incandescents, we are accustomed to brighter also being whiter. LED replacements, brightness and color are two different things. The brightness will be described in lumens, most typically (sometimes also candles per sq ft) and the color will have a name.
I like cool white LED replacements for my low-wattage bedside lamps, though my 15-40 watt bulbs were much warmer, the warm white LEDs are too yellow for me.
I put cool white LED replacements in the over the mirror lights for the bathroom, find the color kind of ghostly, but as I have no longer have women in the house using those lights for trying to figure out makeup colors, who cares?
There will be names like "warm white" or "cool white" or "daylight" and maybe a degrees Kelvin range to suggest comparison to an incandescent source, but don't expect a typical color temperature curve, the light will be a spike somewhere in that range.
Incandescents, we are accustomed to brighter also being whiter. LED replacements, brightness and color are two different things. The brightness will be described in lumens, most typically (sometimes also candles per sq ft) and the color will have a name.
I like cool white LED replacements for my low-wattage bedside lamps, though my 15-40 watt bulbs were much warmer, the warm white LEDs are too yellow for me.
I put cool white LED replacements in the over the mirror lights for the bathroom, find the color kind of ghostly, but as I have no longer have women in the house using those lights for trying to figure out makeup colors, who cares?
