What I learned by living without artificial light

Re:What I learned by living without artificial light by clumsysmurf on Thursday April 26, 2018 @05:04AM (#16930199)

Out of curiosity, I'm wondering which lights (1850K) you are using. The closest thing I could find was this SCS Amber LED

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018S18860

If you are traveling and don't have as much control over the lights, you can get a Zebralight red flood headlamp

http://www.zebralight.com/H502r-Red-AA-Flood-Headlamp_p_124....

The XP-E emitter is pretty old-school tech, but they make great products.

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Re:What I learned by living without artificial light by endtime on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @05:15PM (#16971736)

https://www.superbrightleds.com has a couple 1850k bulbs. I haven't tried them so can't vouch for them.

470 lumens: https://www.superbrightleds.com/moreinfo/vintage-led-light-b...

250 lumens (and large - G30): https://www.superbrightleds.com/moreinfo/g-series-large/led-...

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Re:What I learned by living without artificial light by jedberg on Thursday April 26, 2018 @05:24AM (#16930293)

I use these: https://www.cbyge.com

I picked them up at Target on a super sale. Honestly, all the functionality sucks, but since the only thing I do is set it to 1850K and lowest dim level and then leave it, it doesn't matter that everything else sucks about it.

I also picked up so no name LED multicolor night lights at Costco, but one of the "colors" is a yellow that's really close to 1850K.

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Re:What I learned by living without artificial light by graeme on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:49AM (#16932948)

Do you think the phillips hue bulbs which go down to 2000 K would be about as effective, or would that rxtra 150 make the difference?

The Hue seem much better reviewed in terms of their controls.

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Re:What I learned by living without artificial light by jpindar on Thursday April 26, 2018 @12:40PM (#16933439)

The 2000K is as far as you can set them using the color temperature format, but they can be set to other colors with the xy or hs format.

I often set mine to an almost orange color in the evening.

See the diagram on this page: https://developers.meethue.com/documentation/core-concepts

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Re:What I learned by living without artificial light by John_KZ on Thursday April 26, 2018 @06:34AM (#16930621)

You can get yourself an incandescent bulb. Nothing better than the sweet spectral distribution of blackbody radiation. And if you're American you can buy a 240V bulb. At 120V the color temperature will be much warmer.

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