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Re:I tried making artificial sunlight at home by sberens on Thursday March 27, 2025 @05:18PM (#43498301)
Really cool! I'm working on a lamp that gives you daylight levels of light indoors (albeit no raleigh scattering and columnated light). On the bright side (pun intended), it's 50,000 lumens instead of ~4500. https://getbrighter.com/
Re:I tried making artificial sunlight at home by izuchukwu on Thursday March 27, 2025 @06:42PM (#43499072)
Had the chance to see one of these in person - did not believe you could achieve “daylight indoors” before I did.
Re:I tried making artificial sunlight at home by reaperman on Thursday March 27, 2025 @07:07PM (#43499279)
If you have a chance to chat with the staff again, I notice their marketing language says "Nearly perfect spectrum matching with daylight" - but they don't publish a Spectral Similarity Index. They only claim a (relatively low) CRI of 90+.

Edit: In other materials, they claim a very high CRI of 95+. Also the advertised wattage is sometimes 400W, other times 500W.

Re:I tried making artificial sunlight at home by gblargg on Friday March 28, 2025 @02:25AM (#43502140)
I have a 200W LED flood light and it was the most depressing thing to shine indoors. EVERYTHING was covered in dust and filth that you wouldn't see under normal-intensity light. It felt like things had collapsed and I was surveying the remains of someone's house.
Re:I tried making artificial sunlight at home by polishdude20 on Thursday March 27, 2025 @05:27PM (#43498384)
Oh this is cool! Reminds me of led grow lights. You can get a panel with hundreds of LEDs on it for growing plants for like $200
Re:I tried making artificial sunlight at home by Aeolun on Thursday March 27, 2025 @09:07PM (#43500236)
500 watts! I won't need a heater any more if I turn one of these on. I had a 10k lumen led matrix lamp, but I found that it completely threw off my natural rhythm to sit under it for any length of time. It felt like it was perpetually early morning.
Re:I tried making artificial sunlight at home by ajolly on Thursday March 27, 2025 @09:54PM (#43500565)
Nice to see more high quality indoor light options. Any idea how you guys compare to this one? https://getchroma.co/products/skylight. I've got some of their other products - I'm generally been pretty happy with them but they do tend to be fairly pricey.
Re:I tried making artificial sunlight at home by stevage on Thursday March 27, 2025 @10:11PM (#43500696)
Wow, $2000 per lamp, yeah that's pricey.
Re:I tried making artificial sunlight at home by mac-mc on Friday March 28, 2025 @12:33AM (#43501573)
He hasn't given a spectrometer graph? When you ask him for one he can't seem to be bothered by something so basic either. I don't think he would beat an array of 4 amaran 200x S lights on light output or spectrum quality beyond the dimming method.
Re:I tried making artificial sunlight at home by LoganDark on Friday March 28, 2025 @08:03PM (#43511289)
I snagged a couple preorders upon seeing this comment, since I realized I forgot to do that before.
Re:I tried making artificial sunlight at home by theianjohnson on Friday March 28, 2025 @10:34PM (#43512216)
I'm 100% your audience for this, all I want is for it to be able to automatically adjust it's color temperature throughout the day and I'd replace every Hue bulb in my house with it - can it do that?
Re:I tried making artificial sunlight at home by sberens on Friday March 28, 2025 @11:08PM (#43512368)
Yep you can schedule it to get brighter/dimmer and warmer/cooler from your existing [Matter compatible] smart home system, and with HomeKit adaptive lighting you can have it follow the sun.