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Colour temp of Mercury Vapour bulbs « on: Today at 04:21:59 PM » Author: Eleco_SR304
What's the really colour temp (k e.g. 4000k) of Mercury vapour bulbs? Because usually they are green and I don't really see green on the colour temperature colour board. They definitely use over 4000k.

So, what is the really colour temperature of Mercury Vapour Bulbs (MV, MBF)
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Re: Colour temp of Mercury Vapour bulbs « Reply #1 on: Today at 05:37:26 PM » Author: RRK
Well color temperature is mostly some kind of abstraction dealing with blue-to yellow color balance. It has a physical meaning for incandescent sources as a temperature of a hot black body having the same radiation spectrum. For non-white light, CCT quickly loses its original meaning but there is an agreement within the people working with light to ignore pink-green balance and interpolate resulting yellow-blue color balance of a light as being emitted by a thermal (incandescent) source too. They say "Isotherms perpendicular to Planckian locus" Weird, yeah? ;)

That said, mercury lamp CCT is from about 5500K (bare mercury arc, weak cheap phosphors) to about 4500K (regular MBF) to ~3700K (deluxe) to ~3200K super deluxe, golden lacquer filtered.






 
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