4' LED Shop Lights In Costco?

wopachop wrote:
5000k isnt so bad in some rooms. My trailer has tan wallpaper on the walls and ceilings with dark wood cabinets. I tried both warm and cool and was surprised how the 5000k actually looked warm when it reflects off the tan walls. The warmer color was much too warm.

5,000K IS not all that good, especially inside your home type of use.

Remember the old "mercury vapor" outdoor lamps?

Yeah, those are around 5,900K color temp and have a very poor CRI..

SEE HERE

Color temps as they go up get extremely harsh, 5,000K and up will throw hard shadows and will get pretty uncomfortable to be in after a period of time.

I have worked under HID "unshaded" HID lamps in a warehouse/manufacturing setting, those lights threw hard shadows, reflected hard off of monitor screens making my job miserable for yrs.. Management over time get fed up with everyone complaining about those lights and replaced them with banks of 6 bulb T8 4ft 4,000K fluorescent fixtures, life was much better!

Some folks don't seem to mind, I am not one of those folks..

I have also found for myself, working in 5,000K color temps requires considerably MORE lighting (bulbs). I found that out when relamping my garage with 5,000K curly CFLs.. Bought some 27W 5,000K CFLs to replace 23W 3,500K CFLs.. The garage actually appeared DIMMER when done, even my DW remarked that it was like a "dungeon"..

The 5,000K bulbs got pulled and the lower wattage 3,500K bulbs put back in and life was much better.. The 5,000K bulbs ended up getting relegated to my "outdoor" lights around my property..

Even used as outdoor lights they were not worth wasting the extra electricity over.. I should have taken them back to the store and gotten my money back.. Just about done with those 5,000K lights and the replacements are 4,000K LEDS which brighten the yard considerably.

Heck, I have been avoiding buying a new vehicle with LED headlights, the Halogens are bad enough for distance for my eyes, I wouldn't be able to drive at night at all if I HAD to depend on LED headlights.. For some reason everyone insists the 5,000K-6,000K LED headlights are "better".. Not for me, seems my vision is much better at night with 3,500K-4,300K..

Part of this can be due to some color blindness that tends to run in my family. My Dad was color blind in the blue-green area, mine seems fairly normal as I haven't really run into any major issues but my DD (surprisingly since color blindness tends to affect males more than females for running in family) has difficult time seeing certain hues of green and blue. Some hues of green looks blue to her and some hues of blue looks green to her.

Worked with a guy that had color blindness pretty bad for green, to him, the green light on the time clock when punching in looked GREY..

Color blindness doesn't always mean that you can't see any color at all..