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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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To: NorthMountain

You are obviously in the trade or the engineering side.

I was in the wholesale hardware distribution business for 35 years. Sold a lot of lighting. But it was before the new options existed. I did sell sodium and mercury vapor replacement stuff. And quartz halogen lamps.

I have a commercial radio license and an Amateur Extra. But never worked in that field. I understand the theory pretty well, but optical radiation was not something I studied. Thanks for the clarification.


47 posted on 11/07/2016 9:28:05 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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