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0 pointsfiddlerwoaroof2y ago0 comments

I use mostly LED bulbs, but isn’t it true that LED bulbs all have a lot more blue in their spectrum than incandescent, even the warm ones?[1] I understand why people prefer incandescents but I really prefer my lights to be as white and bright as possible and so I’ve always bought LED bulbs.

[1]: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/20757/led-li...

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cogman102y ago· 2 in thread

Note the date there, that's 12 years old.

The first answer

> Better is coming. > Better costs money.

Better is here, better doesn't cost more money (anymore).

It's pretty trivial to find a warm LED [1], just look for something with a temperature of 2700K or lower and you are set.

In fact, I have a bulb with that color from about that time still operating today.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=2700k+led+light+bulbs&crid=IYEGTJ...

fiddlerwoaroofOP2y ago

I couldn’t find the post, but there was a more recent post (I think it reached the hacker news front page) about how just about every LED bulb has significant blue emissions.

cogman102y ago

Every "white" light has blue emissions (blue is, after all, part of white). Blue is visible, the LED blue emissions for a 2700K bulb are no more or less than the emissions from an incandescent.

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