Lights

[woodelf]

Ken Seefried wrote:

> From: "John Allain" <allain at panix.com>
>
>>>>>>>>>> So given the choice, what lighting *is* good?
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>>
>> Natural white seems to be worse in traditional fluorescents, but newer
>> corrected bulbs are available.
>>
>> Expensive stores and some art galleries like to use high temperature 
>> point
>> sources, like 12V50w reflector lamps.  They may be among the whitest, 
>> and
>> can be used either in quantity for an almost daylight look, or 
>> sparingly, to
>> allow the blinkenlights to be prominent.
>>
>
> For many requirements like this (aquariums, hydroponics, etc), the 
> lighting of choice is high-Kelvin Metal-Halide lighting.  With bulbs 
> over 150W, you can get 10,000 K bulbs, and at 175W and above, you can 
> get 14,000 K.  Bulbs go to 1000W and more.  All of these are very 
> bright & very, very blue-white.
>
Green Green . I want green! .  The sun is green ... ears are pointed ...

> If you are more interested in "natural Sun-like" spectrum, there are 
> numerous choices in VHO florescent bulbs, again in the aquarium & 
> hydroponics world.  These are *totally* different than the florescent 
> bulbs you get at the local hardware store.
>
> Pretty much anything you get at, say, Home Depot, even the "aquarium 
> bulbs" or "grow bulbs", will be noticeably inferior from a spectrum 
> perspective.  Stick to the hydroponic or aquarium stores.
>
Well all I got in Canada is the standard bulb fixtures. I got the screw 
in florescent bulbs to save on power
but I don't like the color spectrum.  I want daylight everywhere but I 
can't change the fixures. Any Ideas?

> Ken