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Modern society is telling me I need to take melatonin.
I tell modern society I make my own melatonin, and sleep perfectly fine because my lights are warm in the evening.WoHo, míster not addicted to your phone who doesn’t watch it in bed.
We can’t all be like you.
I can’t help you with your addiction, I can only offer warm glow.
I’m fully addicted to my phone, but, if I try to watch it in bed… I’ll be laying on it in 20 minutes. Don’t know what it is, I hit the bed, I pass the fuck out. pretty sure it could be on fire and i’d just die there.
Jokes aside, swtiching to a eink reader helped my sleep so much it’s not funny
Am I the only one who doesn’t replace light bulbs based on color temperature? I usually keep around whatever is already in the rental unit/whatever spares the last tenants left around, because I usually move every year anyway.
In the rare chance I get a choice, I usually choose daylight though.
Most people I know who do care.
Change all of the bulbs when they move in. Throw the old bulbs in a box.
Put the old bulbs back when you move out.
Use the new bulbs at the next apartment.
Some of them also have smart bulbs and those are way too expensive to give away.
I don’t go out of my way to replace light bulbs with all these smartbulbs that have day/night cycles.
That being said, if they go out, I normally pick a smartbulb because the price difference isn’t that much for all it offers in return.
I’ve been working remotely from 3 to 10 PM and the gradual change in color temperature both from the smartbulb and my screen really helps me take it easy as my shift is ending.
I definitely have four different temperatures in my tiny studio. I imagine that would set a sort of person on edge.
I love my daylight bulbs
Daylight is full-spectrum, not just cool. Flicker-free and high color rendering index. If you can get that in a bulb (bit more expensive than cheap LEDs) it’s quite nice indoors.
Daylight spectrum is skewed by time of day from blue shifted to red shifted.
True, but I just mean that daylight has properties that not all LEDs do, which is why some LEDs may seem harsh even if they are the same color temperature as daylight. But a good LED with high CRI and no flicker is nice at various temps.
We don’t know Celsius. How do you expect us to know Kelvin?
10800 to 18000°Ra for the Americans
Oh, thanks! That’s… totally a comprehensible metric for humans that have been inside several suns.
My sisters can’t decide which ones she wants to use, so every room has a different lighting hue. Most rooms have different bulbs for each lamp, so hot and cold are right next to eachothert
I have a somewhat basic home automation, and my lights are programmed to be cooler during daylight hours (where necessary, desk lamp, corridor, etc), and they become warmer at night. The reverse happens early morning in winter, where I wake up while still dark.
There’s a solution here you’re not seeing… RGB lights. Setting the hue on the fly to match what I need has been pretty neat. Pure white for work, natural white for relaxing, red only for venting in the summer since insects can’t see it, green and blue strobe for dance nights, the only limit is your imagination. Living in the future has at least a few perks to go with all the downsides.
Though IME, the light quality of a real white LED is better than the mix of an RGB led. Also interesting: the cooler the LED is the higher the quality of the light.
Most “RGB” lights also have 2 white ones of different CCT for a more natural white.
Yes, and blending in between, including RGB, can enhance the quality of light as well to estimate a natural light source.
Not doubting you, but how do you define the quality of the light?
There’s various metrics, like CQS, CRI or newer versions of it.
It’s basically about how close the wavelength spectrum is compared to a black-body radiator given a color temperature (e.g. an incandescent lamp or the sun).
Most of them are so expensive, though.
No, Philips, I am not spending $50 on a single bulb, that is madness.
wait insects can’t see red? does that extend to spiders? i keep all my windows and doors closed all the time even when its sweating hot because i’m terrified of being invaded by insects and spiders
I use one in my houseplants. Actual house plants - there’s a dispensary a block away from me for the rare times I feel like getting high.
Is kinda sad you have to specify.
Nah, I just wanted to cut off the tired old jokes.
cooler light is more popular in places where it gets hot: Middle East, South East Asia countries prefer using cooler tones because it gives feeling of freshness and cooleness
3500 to 5k. My brain hates all others.
Feel like youre playing both sides
3500k is warm 5000k is daylight
Nobody is buying higher K for their home
Not every lightbulb is intended for living rooms. Some are designed for workplaces…
Feel like this is a very US thing. Here in Brazil we just don’t use the white light if we can’t. Same thing with overhead lighting, we love it here but seems like the US guys just don’t go for it
2700k ambient indirect, and 4000k direct overhead with 4 times the illumination when we need to see something. One or the other, the ambient ones are synced to power off automatically
Your piss colored light feels like I am living in the 80s and we haven’t invented halogen bulb yet.
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