LED and "warm" light

schwim

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Love the power of the new LEDs, but also love the warm, rich yellow-red tones provided by the incandescents. Is there any LED which can duplicate this color tone, or is the low-range light frequency just too inefficient for a marketable modern flashlight?

When viewing the beams of these new lights, it's kind of reminiscent of the feeling you may have by using fluorescents lights-vs-incans in your living room.

The utility of these lights aside, is there any chance of having warm, mood-lighting-type tones provided by a LED?


Just curious:)
 
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tesseract

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There are Luxeon "warm white" LEDs which do have a warmer tone, but IMO the problem with white LED (as well as fluorescent) light is not so much "coolness" as the fact that it's not full-spectrum, thus colored objects may not appear as they do in sunlight when viewed in LED light. I'm not sure if the "warm white" Luxeons fix this. I also don't know how they compare power- and efficiency-wise to plain white Luxeons.
 

65535

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full spectrum light is quite orange but white light from an LED is pure and contains less of the spectrum the phosphor coating really its the key behind the color.
 
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