I have read a few post on here talking about which globe Colour or Kelvin rating to use.
Past experience has led me to believe that the wrong choice WILL KILL PEOPLE.
I work and drive nights and see all these different colours and have formed an opinion on this.
My job also takes me to accidents.
Its not nice looking at someone's Family, Mum, Dad ,kids in a wreck.
So I'm going to have m2cw here and now.
Trying to keep it in plain and simple
The area of the light spectrum of white around 6000k has all the colours we can see.
That is, can reflect back to us the most information it's simply how our eyes work.
But this is also how glare comes into play, proberly to much of the light spectrum.
The area of most light (all the colours) is approx 6000k.
Start going up, plus 6000k and you are heading towards the darker area of spectrum.
So that is self explanatory, dark equals less light reflected back to us, ya follow me.
Go down the scale, minus 6000k and we enter the area of yellow to gold and we can still see.
It simply reflects better back to us, and we can still see as a result.
Also without the glare as less white light is present.
The exact colour is always a personal choice.
My ideas.
5500 to 6000k good for head lights and spotties.
5500k better for spotties less glare.
5000k
4500k driving lights. "adverse conditions"
3500 to 4000k fog lights only.
Above 6000k entering the darker area put lives at risk, and waste of time and money.
7000-8000k light blue to blue, might look cool on a dry rd, but again useless.
excuse the expression, bugger looking cool, we need to be able to see properly.
most output , white 6000k
less glare, yellow tinge 5500k
less again, yellow 5000k.
even less yellow to gold 4500k
least gold 3500k.
Here's a link if you want to look further but it can get confusing kelvin light and kelvin temp and are 2 different things but sorta interelated.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...FORM=IGRE#x0y0
Hopes this helps and keeps you all safe.
Cheers Robo
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