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Intent matters. Buying a floor lamp just because it looks good in IKEA catalogue seems misguided. However, I find floor lamps extremely effective at creating a
by goblin89 5y ago
Intent matters. Buying a floor lamp just because it looks good in IKEA catalogue seems misguided. However, I find floor lamps extremely effective at creating a cozy relaxing ambiance (cold overhead LEDs are the worst). Luckily, it doesn’t require much beyond a good old incandescent bulb and some secure holder for it.
- Hamuko 5y agoWhy would I go for a "good old incandescent bulb" when I can buy an RGB light and go for any mood I want for?
- jointpdf 5y agoI mean...what mood is red light for? When you want to feel like a reptile basking in a terrarium? I’m on team having many light fixtures with dimmable warm light LED bulbs—adjust the mood via intensity and number of fixtures turned on (so to speak).
- sudosysgen 5y agoRed light is for sleeping for me.
- Hamuko 5y agoI actually set my bedroom lights to 100% red with a 5-minute auto-dimmer when I'm going to bed. Or when I want my apartment to look like the red light district.
- toast0 5y agoRed light without heat doesn't give the terrarium feel. But it can give an undersea late night feel or maybe an emergency situation feel.
- rssoconnor 5y agoSomewhat dim red lights is my mood for needing to go pee in the middle of the night.
- goblin89 5y agoWhy would you do that I don't know, but for me personally the reason is that LEDs tend to strobe (sometimes noticeably to peripheral vision) and do not emit a smooth continuous spectrum—unlike incandescent bulbs, they produce a narrow, spiky spectrum[0] and objects in your room may look unnatural as they reflect it[1]; this may be especially bad with some RGB LEDs but fundamentally is a property of all LED lights because physics. [0] https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/149686 https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/149686 [1] https://youtu.be/uYbdx4I7STg?t=682 https://youtu.be/uYbdx4I7STg?t=682
- teekert 5y agoI agree! Man I have had so many shitty leds but I’m really quite pleased with my Hue’s.
- mdp2021 5y ago> LEDs tend to strobe So this friend of mine, peak performance oriented and into brain science, approached neurobiofeedback as part of it. He visited professionals who used an electroencephalograph for the purpose. The technician told him that recently they could not make it work properly, at apparently random times, and had to carry on diagnostic in the typical perplexing mystery. Turned out that when the artificial lights were on, suddenly, the EEG misbehaved, since a number of days. And exactly, since he placed LED lightbulbs in the lamp. They created interference with the EEG equipment. Lightbulbs that interfere with the functioning of an EEG... Hint and advice: to assess the "strobing" property of those LED lamps, look at them through a camera, such as that of a mobile phone: you will see different rates of flicker which will help assessing the product quality.
- detaro 5y agoalthough flicker and electrical interference caused by the bulb are not necessarily connected. If you worry about EMI, you need to measure EMI.
- mdp2021 5y agoSure. That was a "moreover". But the link is that, from the possible silver-bullety initial idea of "aproblematic", the first (flicker) is a first breach of that idea and an "initial warning", which opens to the second (EMI)... In the realm of ideas and assumptions about the world, not in that of physics.
- mdp2021 5y agoBecause "pastel" is not "oil" is not "varnish" is not "ink"...