I use red bulb (or just leds now) unironically, I can see good enough to walk at night and they don’t fucking hurt my eyes like dumbass white bulbs. Seriously how do people use those white bulbs? Just going to a hospital is painful.
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Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Harvey656@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 15 hours ago
Warm white is usually 1800 K to 3000 K. What you showed is less Kelvin than the color temperature of fire (1500 K). We don’t have a color temperature word for that, but “red” works. Of course, such light has no blue component (helps control the cicardian cycle) and is pretty much monochromatic with CRI of <5.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Personally though, something under 1500K is perfect for me as bedtime approaches. It primes me to fall asleep quickly
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 11 hours ago
I’m not saying it’s a bad idea, I have a red bulb too. It’s “handmade” by removing thick red rubber from a “golf ball” decorative 7W CFL and stretching it over a similarly-sized 6W 2700K LED that has instant start and higher light output. It is not as monochromatic as pure red LEDs, I think it’s close to what the phosphor-based red ones emit but those are marketed as cicardian too. I have to avoid ooking straight into it though: the pupil is wide open because rods don’t react strongly to red light so long-wavelength (red) cones get massively overloaded and you see a green spot for a while.
CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 15 hours ago
This is why I don’t use them.
The paint in my living room looks diarrhea brown and corpse gray under warm light. It’s purple and blue, and there are a lot of windows so I can’t plan for warm light as a default. Daylight bulbs keep the color what it should be.
heartbreaker@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
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Zwiebel@feddit.org 12 hours ago
The center is 3000K tho
heartbreaker@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Used 5000K because it is missing from OP’s post for some reason.