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Going against the trend here but I still use incandescent bulbs in key places like my desk and so on. I find LED to give a terrible light (not the whole spectru
by sgt 4y ago
Going against the trend here but I still use incandescent bulbs in key places like my desk and so on. I find LED to give a terrible light (not the whole spectrum), but they are getting harder and harder to find.
- bityard 4y agoIncandescent bulbs are not full spectrum, though. They are on the warm end of the color temperature scale, much more "orange" than mid-day sunlight. The good news is that you can get LED bulbs in any color temperature you like. My house is full of "warm white" LED bulbs and I could not tell any difference in brightness or color when I swapped them in for incandescent many years ago.
- madaxe_again 4y agoThe difference is colour rendering and the nature of the spectrum. An incandescent bulb is, by definition, emitting black body radiation - it’s a nice curve encompassing a good chunk of the spectrum, but as you say biased towards the red end. LEDs tend to emit discrete quantised frequencies of light, as a result both of the dopants in the LEDs and the phosphors used on bulbs. They have got better, due to better phosphors, but they still don’t render colour as well as incandescent bulbs. That said, I’m all LED here as I cannot afford within our energy budget to burn a kilowatt or more on lighting.
- ilyt 4y agoThey are continuous black body spectrum which we got used to
- goodpoint 4y ago> LED to give a terrible light Let's stop spreading this myth. Cheap LED lights can have terrible spectrum. Good LED lights have a better spectrum than incandescent.
- sgt 4y agoI should have phrased it differently. See madaxe's comment: > The difference is colour rendering and the nature of the spectrum. If you compare it with your own eyes, you should definitely be able to see it.
- nunuvit 4y agoHere's a good article explaining in-depth how and why LED light looks different from incandescent. https://nymag.com/strategist/article/led-light-bulbs-investigation.html https://nymag.com/strategist/article/led-light-bulbs-investi...
- goodpoint 4y ago> If you compare it with your own eyes, you should definitely be able to see it. People buy cheap LEDs and then say this. Buy good quality LED bulbs and you will see no difference.
- shanebellone 4y agoThere are a few specialty LED lightbulbs made with (old-fashioned) yellow glass that offer a warm (yellowish depending on the room) and comfortable light.
- ilyt 4y agoFinding LED that have light that doesn't look bad is unnecessarily complicated sadly