Soft white or Daylight LED's from Costco

[OWC Jamie]

kledo wrote:
Centuries of candle and lamp oil use have conditioned us to expect warm light wavelengths indoors.

youz are old !

[August West]

I use the cool lights for the utility room and outdoor fixtures, all other interior/living spaces are the warmer temps.

+1

[Robert M]

Micro,

I can see the difference between the colors of the bulb without having them side-by-side. Something not mentioned is the color of the shade on the fixture and the colors in the rest of the room.

In one of my bathrooms, the fixture has brownish/orange shades and the bathroom as a whole has earth tones. The light produce by warm white bulbs is dandy in it. Looks great. The light produce by daylight bulbs looks awful. The other bathroom has white shades and is generally a white bathroom. Warm and soft white both look good in it. Daylight is better.

The shades on the fixture attached the ceiling fan in my kitchen is white alabaster and the kitchen itself has white, yellow and earth tones. Looks great with daylight bulbs. Not as good with warm white or soft white, though I can use all of them.

Robert

[space-time]

billb wrote:
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you're not likely to see a difference between 2700K and 3000K in a typical room.
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Actually I do. Although I have color vision problems (I cannot see ANY pattern on those online color vision tests), I am very sensitive to some of changes in color temperature. I love 3000-3200K, higher than 3500 or lower than 3000 and I start to notice.

[Lew Zealand]

2700K LED or fluorescent lights are colored to have almost the same color temperature as 100W incandescent light bulbs and are a "warm" yellow.

3000K are slightly less yellow, with a bit more blue in them but are still pretty yellow.

4100K are halogens are are noticeably bluer/less yellow.

5000K and up are very blue and are more like the harsher fluorescent lights in office buildings.

However people with cataracts or some vision loss can often see much better with more blue from 5000K bulbs, however I don't have much of this yet and much prefer 2700 or 3000K bulbs. BTW, I calibrate my LCD monitors to around 54-5800K depending on the room lighting during the day and ~3400K at night. Funny how I prefer my light bluer on a monitor but not nearly as searingly blue as they come from the factory.

IMO you should *never* use anything other than 3000K or lower in outside bulbs at night as all that extra blue lights messes up animals' circadian rhythms. But they're all the rage and most people don't give a damn anyways.

[anonymouse1]

If you're going to use them at night, the daylight ones may tend to make it harder for you to go to sleep.

[pRICE cUBE]

anonymouse1 wrote:
If you're going to use them at night, the daylight ones may tend to make it harder for you to go to sleep.

That gave rise to newer iOS devices having Nightshift to make the screen appear more yellow for times the user sets.

[Racer X]

I got really used to 4100K CFL bulbs. Really good balance for me. Now as I replace stuff with LED, the warm white look yellow.

[MacLikeThePickupTruck]

I'm in the process of replacing most of our lights with LED.
It's expensive upfront, but my wife prefers the light and it should help with her headaches/migraines.