results may vary but some of my stock bluish white XML (or latticebright? idk) after a dedome they produce some tasty 5500k range whites that I just can’t find in stock Cree LEDs
I agree that color temperature is important, but since we’re not dealing with black body emissions, it’s important to consider how far a tint is from the Planckian locus (BBL). The ANSI chart has an X and Y axis, but it’s probably best to ignore them. The 2 axes that are important are running diagonally on the chart. The first axis, the BBL (the very faint dotted line running lower left to upper right) indicates the color temperature as represented by black body emissions. The second axis, which is really imaginary, runs top left to bottom right and represents how green or magenta the light is compared to a black body emission. To me, the second axis is more important than the color temperature axis. I like cool white if it’s a good cool white, I love neutral white again if it’s a good neutral white. I would rather have a good cool white than a bad, green tinted neutral white.
My preference is A/D. All of the A and D tints are on the magenta side of the BBL line. The B and Cs are on the green side until you get into warm white (I’m a green hater).
I have cool white, neutral white and a few warm white lights but they’re (almost) all A/D tints.
For Some reason the cooler the better for me. Not so cool the beam looks blue. But a nice white beam looks awesome. I used a plug-in incan spotlight in the car in the weekend, I cringed at the orange beam
As I appreciate the lighting technology of late, incan and the associated beam colour looks somewhat dated. Like a coal miners 5 lumen headlamp in the 1930s lol.
For more brightness, the lights I have around 5000k feel about right without being blue.
However, I also know that more blue light exposure at night will make it harder to sleep, so I’m debating moving some of my light closer to the 3000-4000k range where less blue light is emitted.
I like the colder tints. I have a BLF A6 in 1A and I love it. It renders white objects white
and not some shade of yellow or orange. I am in the minority as most prefer far warmer tints.
Warm tints remind me of incans. Bad memories of weak lights that got warmer and warmer as the
battery died. I am delighted at how modern LEDs perform in comparison!
Who is the idiot that created the Kelvin temperature vs color warmth scale that is just the opposite of reality? What a confusing and non-intuitive scale.
An 8000K white-hot star is much much hotter than a 2700K red star. What a retarded system!