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Default Why do LEDs generate heat?

Max Demian wrote:

the white is really just blue doped with a fluorescent pigment, and
doesn't produce a continuous spectrum?


It's more continuous than separate R,G & B peaks, there's a blue peak
and then a broad green to red hump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode#/media/File:White_LED.png