I have installed LED lights in a couple of places in the house, but not over a train layout.,
I love em! They are pure, full-spectrum white light. I haven¹t put my color meter on them to test, but I would guess about 4000K. They put off virtually no heat and draw MA¹s of current. One thing I would like to know, and maybe some one on the list more versed can tell us: What about UV output from LED¹s? That UV is the culprit in damaging paint. As far as color temperature, the lower the number the warmer the light. Early LED¹s were only one flavor: Bluish, and not an attractive shade to my eye. I personally prefer a color temperature in the upper 3,000¹s~4,000 for interior lighting. But it isn¹t just the color temperature, it is also the color balance. FL¹s for example, are very blue/green bias , virtually no red or yellow, and change the color of anything they project on. They are not a full-spectrum light. A full-spectrum light of lower color temperature can still emit a light that has some yellow, green, blue and red. Another problem with FL¹s is that they change color temperature with age. LED¹s stay the same until they burn out. In the six or so years I have been using them, none has quit. Roy From: Michael Eldridge <[email protected]> Reply-To: S-Scale <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:02:05 +0000 To: S-Scale <[email protected]> Subject: {S-Scale List} LED room lighting Has anybody tried LED's for room lighting? Soon I'm going to order some high brightness LED's (not the little guys we might use in locomotive lighting). They are about $1 each. The vendors list the light output in lumens and in millicandels. Anybody have any idea how that would compare to a 4ft fluorescent? The vendor I'm looking at is superbrightleds.com. You can see the confusing array of products at http://www.superbrightleds.com/cat/component-leds/filter/Color,Warm_White,3, 2: That's just the warm whites. Maybe one of you photographers could recommend a color: they list 3000, 3100, 3300, 3500, 4000. --- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> , "David Heine" <davesn3@...> wrote: > > My current layout uses fluorescent tubes following the shape of the layout > in an essentially continuous fashion. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
