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[–] 143 points 7 months ago (8 children)
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    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Personally though, something under 1500K is perfect for me as bedtime approaches. It primes me to fall asleep quickly

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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 (not to mention, the taut rubber won't send glass ball shards into a mercury-vapor-filled tube if it happens to fall). It is not as monochromatic as pure red LEDs, I think it's close to what the phosphor-based red ones emit (with a lower efficiency of course since I discard the blue and green while they turn almost all blue into red and no green) and those are marketed as cicardian too. I have to avoid looking 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 I see a green spot for a while.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    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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  • [–] 9 points 7 months 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 like I can in bedrooms. Daylight bulbs keep the color what it should be.

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