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To: NorthMountain

Thanks for the graph. If it is accurate as to emission level, looks like LED lamps produce roughly 1/2 the emission of an incandescent lamp. And that the emission of the LED lamp has a pronounced spike of intensity and rest of the spectrum is 1/2 that spike level.

That uneven emission spectrum might explain why it sucks to read by.


45 posted on 11/07/2016 9:08:06 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Since I didn’t produce the graph, I can’t speak to the relative heights of the graphs ... I find it hard to believe they are to scale, though. That red LASER should be off the chart relative to the tungsten filament. The LED spectrum they represent looks like a cool-white to me. In a warm-white spectrum the blue peak is lower than the green-yellow peak. I have seen no white LED that produces significant red, unlike the tungsten which is heavily weighted to the IR. In fact, most of the light coming off a tungsten bulb is IR; invisible to any human.


46 posted on 11/07/2016 9:13:24 AM PST by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: Such a nasty woman ...)
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