Best LED color to mimic incandescent lighting
Dan,
Since you seem to be the wizard with LED's around here I figured I would pose this question to you. So I am creating some paper lamps and I'm looking to power them with ultra bright low power LED's, My goal is to make them green laps with the option to use a battery pack with a solar cell.
So with that in mind what do you think would be the best selection of LED's for me, I was looking at the Luxeon Star LED's, but was wondering what color I should go with if I want that incandescent look, I was also thinking of creating a single rgb rig to control the color of the lighting for each lamp, your input will help me decide.
Thanks in advance,
Joshua AM
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My impression is that the "warm white" LEDs are meant to look like incandescents, while the "cool white" LEDs (or just "white") look more like fluorescent lights. I don't know if you can get an effective "white" out of todays RGB leds; the brightnesses of the individual color chips tend not to match up as nicely as you might like, and the individual colors tend to be "peakier" than the phosphor emissions of the "white" LEDs.
Mar 25, 2008. 5:50 PMJoshuaAM (author)
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uhhhh, the guy who runs this group, and the founder of instructables.
Mar 25, 2008. 5:05 PMDoctor What
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If you want to talk directly to Dan, you can just PM him.
Mar 25, 2008. 5:38 PMJoshuaAM (author)
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He asked to post any question to him to the forum so that everyone may learn from these discussions.
Mar 25, 2008. 5:07 PMguyfrom7up
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make sure the led you get has a wide viewig angle, like higher than 100 degrees
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