Dear god no, you never want mixed light, it’s like walking into an alien space ship or from the Arctic to the Sahara desert just by going to a different room.
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Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
Both. Both are good.
Daylight for the work rooms and things like home-office or homework desks, warm light for cozy couch corners and bedrooms.
Or go full high-tech and install lights with adjustable color temperature.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
Wow, didn’t about it this way…
But for me: Hell, yeah! Added bonus!
Signals the primeval parts of your brain:
“Here you have to fight to survive the horrors of the pleistocean ice shield!”Or, after changing the room:
“This is your dimly fire-lid cave, here you are save to relax!”
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
We have a “sunshine” script in Home Assistant that sets all bulbs to daylight and 100%. Great for livening up overcast days.
Dasus@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Or go full high-tech and install lights with adjustable color temperature.
I may be ahead of the curve a bit. Adjustable colour temp didn’t seem enough. My whole apartment has RGB bulbs since about 5-6 years ago. I just couldn’t go back to on/off one shade lights ugh.
Also I rock a 300w LED panel to get a bit more brightness in my winter days, but that’s not RGB though.
dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Most strips are RGB. The one you are looking for is RGBWW. Full RGB and Warm & White. But they are expensive ><
Dasus@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I mean yeah they are RGBWW if you put it like that but wouldn’t RGB already include different temps of white? So all of my bulbs are Hue, and yes, they were somewhat of an investment even though my apt is not that huge. Like 300e total years ago though, for uhmm the basic 250e colour set, 5 e36 bulbs hub and remote, and then later I also bought two e14s.
But the LED panel I have is actually a 300w growlight. I couldn’t put it on full I’d burn my eyes. But it serves very well as light therapy on the mildest setting. It’s not got any adjustments except a dimmer though.
Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
I’ve been rocking my same hue lights for 8 years. I love having blue and red in the same light fixture. Creates a nice night purple with funny shadows.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
This. My wife loves warm light, but I dislike it. I find my visual acuity better under daylight lights, and find myself cursing if I’m trying to work on something (screws in kids toys or whatever)
Magister@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I’m like this, home office, kitchen, bathroom etc is daylight like 5k, only the bedroom and a corner lamp in the couch room are 3k.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Personally I just go for warm white for places which should be cozy and cold white for places with a more utilitarian use.
Cold white LED light bulbs are actually more efficient, so I’ll even get more light out of the same power lamp making it easier to see what I’m doing (which is what you generally need lights for in an utilitarian use location).
Zwiebel@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Nah 3kK is cool enough for work unless you’re like a graphic designer that needs to see colours accurately. 2.7kK for the rest of the house btw
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I need those blues though to keep me awake
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
Exactly.
Changing the lights in the office room to the brightest daylight variant I could find and adding an additional 5000 Lux desk lamp during winter months was a gamechanger for focus and productivity.
Still enjoy the warm glow of the living room lights in the evening, though.
dukatos@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Good luck doing any soldering with that.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
I solder with 2700k lighting all the time for extended periods of time. Not sure what the problem is.
dukatos@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Shadows are soft and pertinax color doesn’t help.
AlsaValderaan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
I have 2700k spots at my work desk’s soldering station, I honestly couldn’t tell you why but I prefer it. Maybe because I’ve always had warm lighting when soldering. Makes me wanna get neutral or cold spots and try that for a change.
For me the bigger issue is light intensity, I swear the old lighting setup at that work desk was as bright as a grave light… dunno how anyone could use that.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
If you paint you need those 5000 ones or your paintings will look like shit.
Mac@mander.xyz 4 hours ago
Meanwhile all the good paintings were from before lights were invented
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 12 hours ago
Hahaha more kelvin is cooler
Zwiebel@feddit.org 8 hours ago
I know?
Bgugi@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yup. Humans and physics are weird.