If LED's are closer to Sun's color temp, why do incans render colors better?

[Valpo Hawkeye]

As title asks...

 

[Atomic_Chicken]

Greetings!

Read all about color temperature here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature

Best wishes,
Bawko

 

[Ken_McE]

LEDs are narrowband emitters. The sun is a broadband emitter. LEDs are not particularly high CRI.

 

[Planterz]

This is why:

LED vs incandescent vs the Sun Remember that "color" is a wavelength (or combination of wavelengths) of reflected light that our eyes detect and our brain interprets. "White" LEDs are not truely white, but in fact blue LEDs that have been topped with phosphers that glow white or a filterer that masks the blue and turns it white. That's why instead of a curve across the visible spectrum, a white LED spectrum has 2 peaks at different wavelengths that when combined appear white to us.

 

[Valpo Hawkeye]

This is why: That's why instead of a curve across the visible spectrum, a white LED spectrum has 2 peaks at different wavelengths that when combined appear white to us.

I always wondered what those crazy graphs over at LED museum were.