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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 MoreIEEE Concludes LEDs are Viable Because of Flexibility
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- Sep, 30, 2016
- Robert Anderson
- LED Failures, Pro-LED, Technology
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) apparently embraces LED technology as acceptable in the long run because the technology is supposedly flexible. Engineers are often perceived as embracing technology for technology’s own sake, despite collateral effects. This article does not appear to deal with the true issue at hand – the amount of blue light emitted by […]
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