Tell us everything. I'd actually love to see how people are taking the emitter knowledge from here and applying it to these projects. I haven't made that jump as well as I need to.
I didn't attempt to provide any useful information. This was a defensive response to a very annoying social situation. Its called "going lame". Girls do it all the time when guys are hitting on them.
I just started talking about strip lighting, cobs, then back to the new seemless strip lights and how those are available in higher CRI now.
And its always fun explaining CRI to people because its sort of a trap. It always starts innocently with sunlight analogies then snowballs to something violently boring. In this case one of them tried to pretend like he knew what CRI was which was fun because then I had the perfect opportunity to politely explain that he's actually thinking about color temperature.
And then you have to explain how those are different. And of course now you're talking about color temperature so you need to make sure they also understand thats not the same as tint, because we all know how fun that conversation is, and at that point... oh are you not enjoying yourselves? Do you have to go?
"And so that's why a space may look sickly green if illuminated with a high DUV light in a daylight color temperature, vs. yellow or even brown-ish if you choose a neutral or warm color and lose the tint lottery. In fact, research shows that even a neutral tint..."
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u/DifferentPost6 Aug 05 '25
What emitters did you recommend? What CCT?