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Re:Philips LED bulb Tear-down by ars on Monday August 08, 2011 @03:17PM (#2861210)
The reason they are so bright is they don't need to worry about color accuracy. I bet these bulbs are very blue.

Also, their efficiency is about 57.8 lm/w which isn't very good (it's not terrible - but once you try to get a good color the efficiency drops a lot). http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=800+lumens+%2F+%288*250...

Re:Philips LED bulb Tear-down by weeny on Monday August 08, 2011 @09:47PM (#2862430)
They aren't blue at all, they are 2700K - and this is a big part of the reason they are 57.8 lm/w. The remote phosphor, while creating a very uniform photometric distribution, reduces the overall light output by filtering the very monochromatic blue light into warm white light.