Kelvin

[sn4k33y3z]

I understand completely what your suggesting... However, your response supports everything I'm stating. Color temperature for a light source is measured in Kelvin! Regardless if its a gas or a light source... If you took a piece of paper and three flash lights with three different colors and shined those on a single piece of paper at the same time from the same distance, you WILL find ONE color temperature/kelvin present on that piece of paper... Not three different colors! Why is that? Because a blue color rating varies different from a green, red, and white. It's just like taking two different color crayons and coloring them together to make a different color. Well the same is true with light and that's based on temperature.

Here it is in your response;

"Kelvin
This article is about the unit of temperature.
The kelvin is a unit of measurement for temperature"

Those were quoted from your first link.

Here is the next link you quoted trying to show a difference between degrees and the color temp chart. And I quote;

"Color temperature is conventionally stated in the unit of absolute temperature, the kelvin, having the unit symbol K."

The key your missing in the above quote is ABSOLUTE TEMPERATURE.

I agree, it is important for people to get proper information.

 

[sn4k33y3z]

Please look at this link below;

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index</a>

The term "CRI" is what your actually referring to.

"The CRI of a light source does not indicate the apparent color of the light source; that information is under the rubric of the correlated color temperature (CCT)."

"CCT" or correlated color temperature

Color temperature is conventionally stated in the unit of absolute temperature, the kelvin, having the unit symbol K.

 

[ichthyoid]

With due respect, I've done this for a living for 30 years. I don't mean to sound condescending, but it's a little amusing that you are trying to 'school' me on light.

I attempted to explain to you what I deemed misunderstanding. You plainly referred to the temperature of 'gas' in a fluorescent bulb as having the primary affect on it's color. I still say that is incorrect.

I'm not here to pick your posts apart. I'm here to have intelligent and rational discussion about reefing.

I answered the OP's question correctly.

 

[sn4k33y3z]

We agree to disagree.

 

[snowmansnow]

Ok. To redeem myself from the last pics haha

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