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JiminDenver
Sep 15, 2015Explorer II
westend wrote:Nothing worse than buying a dozen or more of a color temp and then find out it's NOT what you want/like.Exactly! I first read about sampling from Tenbear's posts about LED's. I believe he's right about that, as are you.
If my old peepers can be trusted, I've also seen a difference between alike panels but from different sellers. There should be no difference if all the LED's are the same size, type, and amount. Some that I have put out less lumens than others and the color is just a very small bit different. I experimented with my DIY fixtures (glass lense) and could just make out small differences.
My first set of 48 1210 panels were excellent in color and brightness compared to the original bulb. A camera could pick up a difference but we couldn't. The seller ran out of those and then started sending boards that had a purple hue. I ordered a 10 pack from another seller for $17.99 and they were definitely way too warm. (yellow)
The cheap 9 count cobs we use in the overheads were blueish at the start and that seemed to make the limited amount of light they produce more usable. Oddly over time they have changed to a almost grayish color. Those were $1.79 years ago so I didn't expect much.
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