In article ,
Rich Webb wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
N Cook wrote:
For your own personal use. Assuming your lamps are bright enough,
then you could always mix up some varnish and some red + ? dye/ink to
make a weak colour wash to paint over your CFLs to adjust the
colouration to your own taste.

Problem with these lamps is often holes in the spectrum which a filter
can't really cure. And they're dim enough already. ;-)

For the curious, the non-believers, and the "I need a new geek toy" set
there's a very inexpensive "student" spectrometer that makes it really
easy to see just how discrete the spectra is (are?) on many florescent
lamps.

http://www.anchoroptics.com/catalog/product.cfm?id=99

It's kind of flimsy (vacuum-formed plastic shell) but the damned thing
really works. Quite interesting (Must. Resist. "Eye-opening") to
compare a narrow CFL spectrum to a white LED.

There's no such thing as a 'white' LED. And even the closest is far far
worse than a decent fluorescent.

Don't know of a UK source, unfortunately.

--
*I wished the buck stopped here, as I could use a few*

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.