3500K & 3000K make things look yellow & dull!

I have 3000k and 2700k lamps all over. They are a nice temperature - although I have found a way of getting them to look like 6500k+, if only briefly!

Quote from: Brian on November 09, 2008, 03:46:16 PM

3500K & 3000K make things look yellow & dull!

I have 3000k and 2700k lamps all over. They are a nice temperature - although I have found a way of getting them to look like 6500k+, if only briefly!

getting thwem to look like 6500 k breifley,what do you mean.

Very simple.

All I have to do is light the room with HPS - and then switch over to the CFL's. For a minute or so they look a much higher CT than normal!

ive actully grown fond of high pressure sodium,and i like it a little bit,but i still prefer mercury vapor.

btw intreasting experiment sparkie.

it depends on the application of the light. like for closets daylight is best because of color rendering. in bathrooms cool white or warm white is best.

With my experience in fluorescent lighting, I can say that cool white can be used in most applications. Warm white tubes do a softer light and give a great result with indirect lighting. Daylight is great in condition that you don't mix it with other color temperatures as the daylight will appear too bluish. Same thing with Warm white...

yeah,i wonder why cool whites are most common,as far as Compact Flourescent's go 2700 K is more common,warm white and daylight tubes are rare here!

I have two cool white CFLs and three daylight ones. For the soft whites I have too many to count. (Only the CFLs with built-in ballests.)

Someone very recently posted in another discussion (I think it was Vince) that you can
mix Warm White with Cool White and Cool White with Daylight, but not Warm White with Daylight.  I've found this to be true myself.  I find that everything looks sharper under Daylight and Cool White; my eyes are very used to those color temperatures.  If I go into a room that is lit with Warm White lamps, my eyes actually start to hurt, and everything looks yellow to me!  I guess in my case, I like colors that are more intrinsic to fluorescent lamps (which is partly why I like fluorescent lighting) than colors that attempt to replicate incandescent light. 

Brian: It was me indeed    Soft white fluorescents are (almost) only good for indirect lighting, I wouldn't see something else for that and yeah for direct lighting it's kind of glary. Daylight is pretty hard to mix with other color temperatures, even with cool white it looks a bit bluish, not as much as with warm white. If you add the 3500K you have a lot more possibilities.

For me, the only warm white sources that don't hurt my eyes are incandescent bulbs and warm white deluxe fluorescents. The "soft white" compact fluorescents keep bothering my eyes, no matter how much I try to ignore them. They're just awfully glary. I guess it's cuz of the triphosphors used in CFLs, triphosphor linear fluorescents also bother my eyes. My favorite color temperature is 4100K-6500K, clean and crispy :-) Although I admit warm colors can make certain applications look cozy.

i generally will use all Color Temps for CFL's...but it is advised that you pick a color tempature that makes the colored objects in the room stand out...the most common color tempature by far is 2700k,3500-6500K Cfls are limited locally where i live..

2700-3000k indoors, 4100k Outdoors, And still incadescent are still the best light source out. When it comes to MERCS, DX coated puts out more lumens and I prefer them over clear however I still like clear and will use them.

DX Mercs also have a Faster Rate of Lumen Depreciation,because of Deterioation of the phosphorus...but still the cool white light they produce can almost blend in with 4100k flourescents compleatly.

I like 4100K or residential, I also like cool white.