daylight LED battens/tubes?

Werewolf

Werewolf

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Hi

I've just fitted a couple of LED battens in our house and been really impressed with the light from them for general use, however I do model painting and for that warm white isn't ideal, and as I want to improve the lighting in my den I was wondering if anyone knows of any LED battens that use daylight LED's (around 6500k)?

I know you can get daylight LED's as I've got a couple of desk lamps that use them, but I can't find a batten type fitting with them.

So I was wondering if anyone knows of an LED batten about 4-6 foot in length that uses daylight LED's?

Cheers :)
 
If it is for painting be careful what you get. Apart from the colour temp you need to look at Colour Rendering Index CRI - which defines how accurately they show colours.
 
Ooh that looks like the sort of thing:)

As we've got to replace the fitting anyway I was thinking of the batten style like this one (I put one up in the spare room but at 600-6500k) but a slot in replacement tube for a standard fitting works just as well :)
Possibly better as I've got a bunch of tubes in the garage that could do with replacing.


TheCrow said:
If it is for painting be careful what you get. Apart from the colour temp you need to look at Colour Rendering Index CRI - which defines how accurately they show colours.
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I'll have to look into that:)
 
unless im going blind, it doesnt say what bulb it is, or are they non replaceable?

here's an 80+ cri t8 5ft 6000-6500k
https://led.me.uk/t8-led-replacement-tube-5-1500mm-in-cool-white-6000k

all though 80 seems to be pretty standard.


Pansonic do one, but I cant see any for sale

panasonic NNP85951 led batten
Length : 1210mm (4ft)
Color Temp. : 6500K
Power consumption : 23W
Lumen (lm) : 2600lm
Efficiency : 113lm/W
CRI : 80
Life Time : 40000hours

98 cri
http://www.cp-lighting.co.uk/Lamps/Sylvania-Activa-6500K
 
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Aye I should have said batten style, although bare tube to fit into a standard batten is just as good (probably better as you don't have to replace the whole fitting if the light dies).

That tube looks pretty much ideal, and cheap enough I can take a punt on one for the garage spray area before changing the fitting in my pit :)

I'm useless at doing google searches for these sort of things, I need to improve my google fu.
 
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