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Most of us light up their favourite lamps from time to time. But have you tried using them for a longer period in a place where you spend most of the time? Having my spouse abroad I've had an opportunity to experiment. I've been using mercury lighting exclusively (except a few occasions when I needed more light and added regular ceiling lighting for a limited time). Boring Sylvania, Philips and some other modern MBFU lamps were used in the beginning. They're 4000K - 4200K with decent colour rendition so it wasn't a big jump from 4000K LEDs we normally use there. Narva/NBB lamp was used next. While 2000+, it's a higher CCT lamp (4500K - 5000K) and the light was more interesting already. A 1977 Tesla RVLX lamp followed and was used for more than two weeks. (I've got three of them so I can afford to wear them out a bit.) That's some light! Almost 6000K with significantly subdued red colour rendering and pronounced greenish tint. I got used to it and really enjoyed the street lighting colour from my childhood. Now I'm finishing with a clear MV lamp "on tap". Actually it hasn't been a huge leap from the RVLX lamp. Maybe I'll prolong the experiment a bit because I like this light as well.  |
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I actually converted my kitchen lights to 70watt halides back in March 2013, and ran with a 10,000 lumen kitchen for 19 months!, I fitted them in the morning and went to work at 2pm, not telling the wife anything about it!  I got a phone call that evening at about 9, it was the wife, who had come home, got out of the car, and wondered why the light coming from the kitchen window resembled a H bomb going off in the house!!  Sadly though I soon came to realise that the ‘brighter’ kitchen I wanted was giving me eye fatigue!, and dropped down to more sensible household lighting! |
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I remember you saying about that The 2150 lumens from our newly fitted 28W 2D is plenty bright enough for us |
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I remember Sammi’s first comment on the photo was something like, “you sir are a nutter”!
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| My room is lit with a 70 watt high pressure sodium lamp in a Holophane low bay fixture. It is 7000 lumens but it's peachy colored light so it doesn't strain the eyes.
In a bedroom it's okay but in a kitchen it'd look terrible and the food would look gross.. I've noticed that when I drag food up to my bedroom that under LPS and HPS light it doesn't look as good.
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My room is lit with a 70 watt high pressure sodium lamp in a Holophane low bay fixture. It is 7000 lumens but it's peachy colored light so it doesn't strain the eyes.
In a bedroom it's okay but in a kitchen it'd look terrible and the food would look gross.. I've noticed that when I drag food up to my bedroom that under LPS and HPS light it doesn't look as good.
When we've had SOX on in the kitchen, the only thing that looks the same colour as it does normally is baked beans  |
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