Anyone with experience of using LEDs for display lighting?

|Dave Fawthrop wrote: |> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:49:22 GMT, "." wrote: |>

|>> Dave Fawthrop wrote: |>>> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:35:26 GMT, "." wrote: |>>>

|>>>> Dave Fawthrop wrote: |>>>>> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:31:18 GMT, "." wrote: |>>>>>

|>>>>>> Dave Fawthrop wrote: |>>>>>>

|>>>>>>> White LEDs are very *white* |>>>>>

|>>>>> Which is what *I* see. |>>>>>

|>>>>>> IME they are very /blue/ |>>>>

|>>>> |>>>>

|>>>>> What you are seeing is the *difference* between the light sources. |>>>>

|>>>> what I'm seeing is different wavelengths given out by those |>>>> lightsources |>>>>

|>>>>>> very blue, very cold. |>>>>>

|>>>>> Colour is a very personal thing |>>>>

|>>>> it's totally impersonal, measured in Kelvin's. |>>>>

|>>> Kelvins are a *temperature* scale. |>>>

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|>>|>> oh, dear, poor dave :-( |>>

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|>|> Colour temperature is totally inappropriate for measuring the |> wavelengths light from LEDs. What colour temperature is a green LED? | |I don't care ! but here's some reading matter for /you/ ;-) | |

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it demonstrated my point perfectly.