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Re:Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness by Eochei5h on Thursday August 09, 2018 @12:34PM (#17725722)
Check the spec sheet of the bulbs, specifically the color temperature in kelvin. Ignore the "warm white" and similar marketing terms, they are too fuzzy.

A LED with low color temperature and high CRI should have pretty much the same spectrum as incandescent. If you want really low temperatures look for some retro filament style LED lights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature#Categorizing...

Re:Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness by pistachiopro on Thursday August 09, 2018 @01:05PM (#17726065)
It's tricky, though, since most LED bulbs use a single wavelength of blue LEDs which get downshifted by phosphors, even in high CRI bulbs, you can have an unnaturally large spike in the blue (often around 450nm).
Re:Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness by Brakenshire on Thursday August 09, 2018 @12:53PM (#17725939)
CRI unfortunately is not a good test, it still can produce very high ratings even when the spectrum is spiky.
Re:Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness by namibj on Thursday August 09, 2018 @01:32PM (#17726390)
95+CRI is an indicator for mostly lack of spikes. Look at Yuji (yujiintl.com), they seem to be the only ones selling actual high-CRI LEDs with sane pricing (i.e., no ideological markup).
Re:Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness by mapmap on Thursday August 09, 2018 @06:16PM (#17729040)
I'd like to try one of these out, but at $20 per bulb it's a a bit steep. Are you able to comment how they compare to the Feit Electric 90+ CRI bulbs sold at Costco for a few dollars a bulb?