Very small light bulb for old gas street lamp

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That's very odd. I'd always thought gas lamps using a mantel had a colour temperature towards the cool end of the spectrum.

We had a street one outside our house when I were a kid. And it looked rather whiter than the electric lights indoors.

We had a gas lamp in our caravan back in the day. We eventually replaced it with a battery operated daylight light. However the gas lamp did apparently change its colour with brightness, yes, it was dimmable! It seemed to go a kind of yellow green colour when dimmed. The main reason we changed was not safety as such but the condensation it caused. Brian

It's years since I used gaslight, but I don't remember it being warm, other than literally. More a slight green cast to it. Given other people's comments I daresay the compounds on the mantles varied, and thus the light produced did too.

NT

I have a gas mantle lamp in the garage. Comparing it with the fluorescents nearby, it's probably about 3400k.

I would use 3 x LED golfballs to mimick mantles if I was refitting. Poundland often get 3W ones in (although they run out very queckly, so you might have to recheck periodically). I've not had any of these fail yet.

I notice some of the gaslamps in Old Palace Yard (along the outside of Palace of Westminster) have been refitted with inverted LED candle bulbs, although golf balls would have been more authentic.