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Old 06-04-2008, 09:48 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default how many kelvin will a florescent light have?

I have a 120 volt, 15 watt florescent light but i would like to know how many kelvin it has... roughly.... it doesn't say on the tube but is there a way of figuring this out? or would anyone have a rough estimate of how many it has?


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it will have a color temperature of about 3500 degrees kelvin
i don't know if thats helps at all
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Kelvin = temperature = colour, as a rough idea.

On the tube may be a colour such as "white", for instance:

Warm white = 3000
White = 3450
Cool = 4200
Daylight = 6300
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