Color temperature of fluorescent lamps

!±8± Color temperature of fluorescent lamps

What is color temperature?

Two fluorescent lamps with a power of 30W to say. This means that both give a light bulb is about 150W, and have the same brightness, but the guy (or quality) of light, could be very different, depending on their 'color temperature'. This is often referred to, one or the other, the type of light from a fluorescent lamp described.

What is white light?

Opera ultraviolet lampsDownload the pipe hits the coating, which then provides a white light. White light is a mixture of all colors of the visible spectrum, but the mixture can vary, and most of the red spectrum of light "yellow", as the end of the violet light "blue". The pipe coating is issued for the type of light. Various coating compositions of the different qualities of light ..

As the color temperature is measured?

AThings more complicated, this can be specified as Kelvin (K) of the lamp, or as a color code. There are two ways to describe the same thing. Below are several sources of light:

- It is about 1700K. a match flame
- It is about 1850K. flame of a candle
- 2700K Color Code 827 or the color of most incandescent bulbs and is often used as a warm white or warm white
- 3000K or 830 is the color of halogen lamps and more is called warm white
- 3500K or 835 is theColor of the sun's early morning or evening is white and
- 4000K or 840 is the color of strong sunlight and is called cool white
- 6000K or 850 is the color of the lamps light or craft light of day and half white daylight
- 6500 or 860 is the color of some specialists say, and cold-light lamps
- 10000K is approx. Color of a bright day with blue skies.

Fluorescent lamps can be made between 2700K and 6500K. In general, the higher the color temperature,the most expensive of the lamp, and the "white" lamp. Some people prefer a touch more "soft" yellow for artificial lighting and rooms with lots of reds and yellows. Others prefer a bluish "cool", especially for rooms with lots of blue and green. Close the complicated work such as sewing, embroidery, etc., the benefits of high color temperatures, as well as older people whose eyesight is deteriorating.