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Maybe in California you don't need this, but in the northern half of Europe (i.e. Germany and above) the weather this time of year is pretty abysmal. My office
by fy20 4y ago
Maybe in California you don't need this, but in the northern half of Europe (i.e. Germany and above) the weather this time of year is pretty abysmal. My office has floor to ceiling glass on three sides, but today at 2pm we had to turn on the lights because it was so cloudy and dark. The 10kWp of solar on my roof produced 2kWh today.
I agree that most indoor lights are not bright enough, but that's mainly because there hasn't been an easy way to regulate them. There's no reason why you can't light your living space to 500 or more lux (most living rooms are barely 150 lux) at 6500k and regulate it down at night, and something like this makes it easy to do.
- PaulHoule 4y agoWhen I was living in Germany I felt like I was an astronaut in December because it never got very bright during the day and the nights seemed to last forever. My biological clock quickly got unstuck and started running free.
- saiya-jin 4y agowait till you experience Norway of Finland, its a serious issue up there
- LtWorf 4y agoMy office looks like candlelit… on dark days you get so sleepy.
- _yb2s 4y agoI found I need about 20k lux for much of the day to not feel sleepy or depressed in the daytime. I had to move to California and work outdoors to overcome this, I used to live far north, but even "extremely bright" indoor lights weren't enough to have a positive effect on me.
- esperent 4y agoDo you mean lumen? I've never heard of lighting a space more than 500-1000 lux unless extreme fine detail work is being done. At 20k lux would you even be able to see what's on your computer screen?
- _yb2s 4y agoI did mean lux, and what you are saying is exactly my point. I can't easily light indoor areas that bright, so I need to be outside. There are a few people online that have experimented with indoor lighting that bright for seasonal depression, but it's expensive to do.
- dbttdft 4y agoYou do realize Northern Europeans are adapted to needing less sunlight? I would emulate candles if I were you. Which means warm color temperatures. So you don't need the product of this thread, you just need a simple warm color temperature bulb. Do some extra research and get one that doesn't flicker.
- scrollaway 4y ago> You do realize Northern Europeans are adapted to needing less sunlight? ... Do you think people don't travel, or that we only have Northern Europeans living here in Europe?
- dbttdft 4y agoI think that your assertion about high color temperature being important is less strong than you thought it was.
- esperent 4y agoNorthern European here. No... No, we are not. We suffer from pretty extreme depression during the dark months which has been largely ignored until recently. Some people get it bad (like me) some people get it mildly. For some reason I can't find figures right now but I recall it being something like 10% of people living in northern Europe get SAD seriously and up to 30% more mildly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder