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0 pointsArubis2y ago0 comments

If you told me you could make one room of my house consistently color-balanced with LED lighting that I would have no reason to hate, I would ball up a couple hundred dollar bills and throw them at you.

(Edit: I’m also coming from buying Philips Hue bulbs for precisely this reason, so in fairness, it’s not as big a price jump.)

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brodouevencode2y ago

I have a few Hues and they are great, and last much longer. But in this house I cannot justify even that. In my kitchen/breakfast nook alone I have 10 lightbulbs plus an overhead flushmount.

doitLP2y ago

Keep in mind: all LEDs leak blue light even the warm ones (color is achieved by average so you can have high red and high blue and it looks balanced visually). These bright blue leaking LEDs are great during the day — especially those with high CRI and R9 values. But not at night when you’re trying to go to bed! Switch to incandescent only in the evenings until they figure out blue-less dimmable LEDs

rini172y ago

Not all, only white LEDs. You can use any cheap LED RGB strip without white components and set it to yellow/orange light with blue completely off. It has poor CRI though.

wkat42422y ago

Obviously it has bad CRI because that requires a blue component :)

But for going to sleep it's not a bad idea.

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b1122y ago

Makes me think of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X-ZVOYwNLU

lacrosse_tannin2y ago

incandescent bulbs used to cost like $0.60 each

bombcar2y ago

Ain’t nobody gonna get rich selling bulbs for $.60 that aren’t even filled with mercury and rare earths.

knodi1232y ago

> ball up a couple hundred dollar bills and throw them at you

this is why more and more businesses only accept cards. :-P

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