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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
in addition to the temperature change, i think the thing that makes the switch even more noticeable to my eye is that the new LED lamps must have a CRI that is an order of magnitude higher than the old sodium lamps.
with the new LED streetlights i can actually make out the true color of objects now, blue looks like blue, red looks like red, green looks like green, etc.
with the old sodium lamps, everything was just washed out in a sea of unrelenting orange. i liked that. it felt magical and moody. but alas, no more.
now, night time is a lot more like day time, there's no more weird transformation into "orange world" at twilight.
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Yeah, that makes sense. LEDs are a far, far superior lighting solution to incandescent, hps, metal halide, fluorescent, etc. in so many ways, but I agree with you and I do lament the loss of the nighttime atmosphere in the city created by sodium lamps. I'm hoping LEDs can be fine-tuned to match that effect.
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Originally Posted by Encolpius
Also, don't think anybody's mentioned this yet: LEDs flicker like computer screens. Yuck.
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Only if they're cheap shit LEDs.
Or if they are on non-LED dimmers.