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Incandescent 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 n
by bityard 4y ago
Incandescent 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