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Rod

wrote:
On 1 Oct,
Rod wrote:

Sorry - I feel that the 2700K CFLs are truly ghastly for use in the
living room in the evening! Even standard tungstens are a bit too
yellow. Not certain what temperature ours are, 4000K I think, and they
are fine.

Nothing less than 3500k suits me. I used to like the old gas lights, a
greenish tinge in preference to the yellow electric lights. I wonder how they
were in the colour temperature/rendering stakes?

Soft start as well. It wasn't until the end of the 60s that the station
I most used converted to fluorescent. (That, IIRC, means that they had
beeen converted to natural gas a few years earlier.) The change in
colour was horrible - from quite OK to ghastly.

I'd guess that CRI depended on the materials of the mantle (thorium and
cerium oxides?) and its age.

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Rod

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