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MEXICOWANDERER
Jan 16, 2018Explorer
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The light bar people are full of -- ah -- er -- beans.
The actual lit area with the floodlights would be much much more natural like sunlight. I have something like 160 chips of various wattages and only one, brand name SHARP emits beautiful sunshine. Impossible to find in an assembled lamp.
I have a 50 watt Sharp 8' up over my workbench. At full driven milliamps it is flat-out too bright even for my weak eyes. I had to dial the power supply down to 92%. This reduced brightness is hospital operating room grade intensity. FAR too bight for casual living. Your light bar hot spot of lit area would be even brighter than the Sharp chip in full song. Outrageously too bright.
I know of no other simple way to achieve what you are looking for. The nuances of lighting color and mood is subtle. Sunlight is sunlight. What I recommended is going to mimic sunlight as close as you'll ever get.
For what you paid for that lamp I could get a thousand watt CREE chip light bar. But this isn't a lumen contest. It's a "Gimme Sunlight!" issue. And ultra white is not sunlight -- I had to tune my white reading light behind my head with a 4000K CREE 12 watt chip in order to reduce the strain issued by the pure white LED strips. Mr. Wizard saw the lamp in an email to him.
I work with LED chips daily. When I did the big supermarket I had to search for and find the correct sunlight color temperature. The store has sixteen 50 watt lamps driven by Meanwell power supplies. A tricky point was the 5 watt green LED for the lettuce and celery and a red LED for the beef, orange for the chicken. The customers loved it.
The light bar people are full of -- ah -- er -- beans.
The actual lit area with the floodlights would be much much more natural like sunlight. I have something like 160 chips of various wattages and only one, brand name SHARP emits beautiful sunshine. Impossible to find in an assembled lamp.
I have a 50 watt Sharp 8' up over my workbench. At full driven milliamps it is flat-out too bright even for my weak eyes. I had to dial the power supply down to 92%. This reduced brightness is hospital operating room grade intensity. FAR too bight for casual living. Your light bar hot spot of lit area would be even brighter than the Sharp chip in full song. Outrageously too bright.
I know of no other simple way to achieve what you are looking for. The nuances of lighting color and mood is subtle. Sunlight is sunlight. What I recommended is going to mimic sunlight as close as you'll ever get.
For what you paid for that lamp I could get a thousand watt CREE chip light bar. But this isn't a lumen contest. It's a "Gimme Sunlight!" issue. And ultra white is not sunlight -- I had to tune my white reading light behind my head with a 4000K CREE 12 watt chip in order to reduce the strain issued by the pure white LED strips. Mr. Wizard saw the lamp in an email to him.
I work with LED chips daily. When I did the big supermarket I had to search for and find the correct sunlight color temperature. The store has sixteen 50 watt lamps driven by Meanwell power supplies. A tricky point was the 5 watt green LED for the lettuce and celery and a red LED for the beef, orange for the chicken. The customers loved it.
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