On 03-Dec-16 11:10 AM, Scott wrote:
As I mentioned elsewhere, I am experimenting with LED lighting.

I was having a curry with a former colleague last night, who mentioned
his father hates LED lighting for the following reasons:
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3. Because of the frequency (colour temperature?) the light does not
travel as far so streetlamps need to be placed closer together but.
Councils are not doing this for cost reasons, leaving blackspots in
illumination.

Probably depends upon the Council. My local County Council has recently
carried out a huge programme of updating the street lights to LEDs. All
but a few minor residential streets, where lights were mounted upon
existing overhead power poles, got new light columns at new spacings.


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Colin Bignell