3000K CCT Maybe a Sheep’s Cloak for LED Manufacturers
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- Apr, 14, 2017
- Robert Anderson
- Dark Sky, Environment, LED Failures, Technology
The American Medical Association’s (AMA) report of June 2016 has caused LED manufactures to tout the benefits of “warmer LEDs”. By recommending a maximum color temperature of 3000 Kelvin, the AMA may have opened the flood gate for LEDs to proliferate. The Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has cautioned that Correlated Color Temperature, as […]
Read MoreDOE Continues to Rationalize use of LED Streetlights
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- Apr, 01, 2017
- Robert Anderson
- Dark Sky, Environment
The US Department of Energy continues to rationalize its promotion of LED Streetlights. The study offered up here states that “The findings in this document consequently represent only the contributions to sky glow from the street lighting system” and implies that LED Streetlights are not the primary source of “Sky Glow”. The study pits full power HPS […]
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