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Dave Fawthrop
 
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Default Anyone with experience of using LEDs for display lighting?

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:35:26 GMT, "." wrote:

|Dave Fawthrop wrote:
| On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:31:18 GMT, "." wrote:
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| Dave Fawthrop wrote:
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| White LEDs are very *white*
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| Which is what *I* see.
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| IME they are very /blue/
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| What you are seeing is the *difference* between the light sources.
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|what I'm seeing is different wavelengths given out by those lightsources
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| very blue, very cold.
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| Colour is a very personal thing
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|it's totally impersonal, measured in Kelvin's.
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Kelvins are a *temperature* scale.
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/earth/At...re/kelvin.html
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