These things are great!
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Cool. Do you put them in lamps and turn only them on at sunset?
This time of the year if dark very early where I am.
If I want a good night sleep I just turn “OFF” the lights and put on some nostr:npub1qdcakl75gd7wv0nqmmwrz09ddm5tzl7xj8lq2gclng2qzd8up5yqjpzclt 😉
Lol! I was thinking exactly the same thing. Who turns on the lights when they go to bed? 😂😂
Aren't incandescent lights supposed to be naturally warm and healthier than LED lights?
Way better. Led make you sick
i hate LEDs because they are always dim and it's not possible to see properly under them. anything less than 20W for a loungeroom is dimmer than a 60W so the claimed efficiency in its effect is no more than 3x, they make everything they light up strobe when it moves around like it's a friggin disco light, and their spectra is always ugly af
i can never comprehend why people use the cool white ones either, they are so blue, everything looks ugly, you look at people's faces and all you see is veins
Cheap LED lights are often over-advertised regarding their wattage, try measuring those 20W ones with a plug-in meter. The strobing depends on how the driver electronics are constructed, there are LED bulbs that has practically zero flicker - far less than incandescents even. If you get a name brand like for example Philips or Ledvance (previously Osram), you're far less likely to encounter these two problems. There are good cheap ones too, but it's hard to know which ones before trying them.
The cheap ones are also often over-driven and doesn't last long and/or lose light output over a relatively short time.
The color rendering is measured in RA or CRI (same thing, different names), and there are LED bulbs with higher numbers. None as high as incandescents - 100 - but 95+ exist. The usual for LED bulbs is just 80. The better ones are slightly less energy efficient, and usually more than slightly more expensive, 1.5 to 3X the price, but since only name brands make them AFAIK, they'll probably last at least 1.5 to 3X the time of the cheap ones too, so it's probably worth it, at least in the kitchen/eating area, over the mirror, etc.
Doesn't work. Still shows up as blue light under a light meter. Throw ALL led in the trash. Incandescent and halogen. Even better, candle light
yes but can they be used as listening devices?