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Glad to see these are finally coming into mass retail. I think they may have missed an opportunity to make the colour output somewhat customizable. They could
by grannyg00se 15y ago
Glad to see these are finally coming into mass retail. I think they may have missed an opportunity to make the colour output somewhat customizable. They could have included multiple plastic covers instead of only the yellow one.
- wlesieutre 15y agoThat would probably add more expense than it's worth. The yellow part isn't just a plastic color filter, the lights use what's called a "remote phosphor", where it's internally using high powered blue LEDs, which is then absorbed and reemitted in a wider spectrum at the yellow layer. There are a number of reasons for doing this, but the biggest ones are that it gives it a large and more diffuse emitting area, preventing the multiple shadows from exposed LEDs, and (IIRC) that the phosphors tend to be more stable when not integrated into the LED.