On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 01:14:13 -0700 (PDT), "
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I wouldn't like these to be my sole source of light in a shop. LEDs I
can see getting at some time, but the little curly bulbs do fine with
enough size and wattage.

I have a hard time with folks when I do a kitchen or bathroom and we
get to lights. Cooking and food prep under the really white, high
Kelvin LEDs can yield some pretty strange results as they distort the
color band so badly. Makeup application isn't very good as the skin
tones take on a definite whitish/blue tint.

Folks want the light the higher Kelvin bulbs bring as they don't want
to pay for a couple more cans in the ceiling. For me, I don't want my
cabinets, tops, and floors to look washed out. Nor do I want them to
see the color distortions that could make them unhappy with their new
room.

And in a shop, I can't even imagine how ticked off I would be if I
didn't know that and I was doing staining/coloring/finishing in my
shop with that heavy dose of chromatic blue instead of something in a
more normal color range. Imagine finishing something in your
brilliantly lit shop with the hot white bulbs and then putting that
piece into a more warmly lit environment. *ouch*

Robert

In another life we did a lot of commercial/industrial lighting
retrofits. We alway did some demo areas first so they could see how
the different Kelvin temperature lamps effected how wood, carpet, and
paints appearance not to mention people. We let them make the choice.

Mike M