Under Counter Lighting - 6500k

[Ferdinand]

I am looking for some inexpensive LED striplights with a colour temperature of about 6000k-6500k. That is roughly "daylight".

 

They will need to be linkable, and plug into the mains - so 240V or maybe a transformer. The product area may be shop display lights or under counterd lights.

 

My application is as growlights for microveg, as I continue to experiment.

 

I picked up the idea from an American site who recommend these:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F2WMCP2/

 

I need slightly shorter ones 30-70cm long, as I am.

 

I already have some designed-as-growlights LED grid things, but I want to try these too.

 

Any ideas? Thanks

 

Ferdinand

 

[ryder72]

Daylight is generally referred to the 4000k temperature range. 6000k is cool white.

[Ferdinand]

26 minutes ago, ryder72 said:

Daylight is generally referred to the 4000k temperature range. 6000k is cool white.

 

I don't think that is correct:

 

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Colour temperature is measured in Kelvins (K), and typically ranges from 2000K-6500K. The lower the number, the warmer the light. A typical warm white light bulb for use in living rooms and bedrooms would have a colour temperature between 2700K-3200K. Cool white bulbs are anywhere upwards of 4000K. At the far end of the scale, ‘daylight’ bulbs have a colour temperature of 6500K and are supposed to replicate the tone of light that the sun emits during the day. These would look very blue in a typical living room.

https://www.simplyled.co.uk/info/colour-temperatures/

 

[Roys]

I have found that when you start to go into the 5000 to 6000k range the white is very much too blue for me.

i like 3000 to 3500k in bedrooms and living rooms

4000 to 4500k in bathrooms and kitchens 

[Ferdinand]

43 minutes ago, Roys said:

I have found that when you start to go into the 5000 to 6000k range the white is very much too blue for me.

i like 3000 to 3500k in bedrooms and living rooms

4000 to 4500k in bathrooms and kitchens 

 

Thanks for the comment. I tend to agree.

 

But this is for my green vegetables ?, such as watercress and dill weed.

 

4000k would be for flowers, and I can't eat so many of those.

Edited August 3, 2020 by Ferdinand