Are LED RV lights as bright as incandescent?
I find the brightness of the lights in my TT marginal at best. It is not that the lights are dim; it is just that even with both bulbs shining brightly, they only draw 30 watts of power. My average ho...
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D.E.Bishop wrote:SoundGuy wrote:trail-explorer wrote:
The warm white LEDs I use are the same color temperature as incandescent lamps.
Doubtful. Incandescent bulbs typically run ~ 2600 degrees Kelvin, the warmest LED equivalents typically run ~ 3200 degrees Kelvin. If you have documentation that shows otherwise I'd be interested in seeing it. ;)
My understanding was that incandescent lamp were about 2700K, average during the lifetime of the lamp. I have never bought a spectrometer to verify that but in my field, the kelvin was important. Traffic signal lens are colored to having a lamp burning at an average of 2700K. You can contact Dura-Test and they can give you the lab tests.
Cree and a few other companies make lamps for home and office that are considered to be 2700 and they classify them as the same as an incandescent lap.
I don't have a dog in this fight and I don't want to see the thread closed but it's all getting too technical and beyond common understanding. 2600/2700 really to minor a spread. Now the Cree street lights we have at home are a little over 4000K. why you ask, it's very close to the spectrum of moonlight. That's what all scare lights should be on RVs. JMHO
I have converted all the regular bulbs in our house to CREE, 60, 70, 100 W equivalent, color temp is 3200K IIRC . when compared side by side to a equiv watt incandesent, color is very close to the same. Don't really see much difference, but the conventional is a lower color temp. What I don't know is how sensitive the eye is to the difference as the color temp goes down. The difference between 3200K and 4000K to me is very obvious. 2700K vs 3200, much more subtle.
