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Old Mar 2, 2012 | 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by KSA-Cossie
Mines are 500k,any higher and they look blue
You mean 5000k I'm sure.

In my opinion as a lighting engineer the optimal colour temp is around 4300k, but these can be difficult to obtain for retrofit applications. I would not recomend going anywhere over 6000k as at this point they are a bit too blue and 8000k upwards are about as much use as a snooze button on a fire alarm
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