Lights, decent working under lights.

[MaC]

My wee angle poise lamp blew it's bulb tonight, and I don't have a spare at hand. I'm making do with an LED desk light, but it's not good, it's really not good.
I need to pick up bulbs tomorrow, but my lamp is twenty years old now.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a decent light ? something I can sew under, read, weave, make lace, all stuff that needs clarity.

M

 

[Nice65]

My mum has a lamp by Serious. Hellish pricy, but she has glaucoma and needs it. I’m sure there must be others that use the same colour rendition LEDs that don’t cost so much.

 

[MaC]

Thank you I'll have a look at that
Easter's coming and there's no point them buying me chocolate, I'm still snowed under with Christmas chocolate and will be long past Easter time, so they usually buy me a present instead. Something for the garden or the like, but a decent lamp might be a very good thing

M

 

[Nice65]

I’m pretty sure there must be similar, but here’s a link to the Serious Readers.

https://www.seriousreaders.com/categories/table-lights

There’s no way that should be costing £350!

 

[MaC]

Crikey, they fair see folks coming, don't they ?
In this day and age that's an extortionate amount for a light though.

I can get a pack of two new bulbs for mine for six pounds, I just thought maybe it's time to look around and see what's available, might be better, kind of thing.

 

[noddy]

I don't now, but for a long time after a spell working in a graphic design office, I used to go and find these 'daylight' bulbs. Just looked like ordinary bulbs with blue glass. But I really could see what I was doing with them. As I spent more time reading, I preferred yellower bulbs. The thing I notice now is a big push in the optometrist to sell lenses that filter the blue out. The lenses just look a very light brown colour. Is that the same as Daylight Wavelength Technology™?

This is no real help.

 

[MaC]

Pretty sure I've mentioned it before, but years ago, over thirty of them, Himself bought me a daylight bulb from a garden centre in Glasgow town centre...yes, back then there really was a garden centre in the middle of the Merchant City....it was sold as a Full Spectrum growing light, meant for bringing on seedlings.
It was a truly lovely light to work under. It was like sitting outside in a gently warm sunny day. Lovely to see clearly, and the light tricked my mild SAD into nothing
When it finally died, we tried to find another, but by then the 'blue' ones had come out and though they might have been sharp to see under, they did nothing for the mood, nothing to brighten up the dullness.
Horrible thing to have in the house. Gloomy and depressing.
I quite happily passed it along to someone else who believed all the hype about the blue.

The next 'horticultural' light we found was pink....apparently hash farming uses pink :dunno: either way, it was not a good idea and was cheerfully chucked.

Himself bought a new bulb for me this morning from Screwfix. It's very bright, very clear, but it's cold. No gentle warmth, no minding of a sunny morning.
It'll do, but it still not 'right', iimmc ?

M

 

[noddy]

Hm ... I work in a not very well lit office. I might pop along to Home Depot today and see if I can find something like a one of them old Gro-Lux thingies.

 

[bushwacker]

Hm ... I work in a not very well lit office. I might pop along to Home Depot today and see if I can find something like a one of them old Gro-Lux thingies.

like the ones they used to grow weed indoors?

 

[BorderReiver]

like the ones they used to grow weed indoors?

In the good old days a windowsill was quite adequate.

 

[Templogin]

If anyone is interested in the Serious lamps there is a £100 off offer. Quote offer code 8195. Still £249 for a table lamp and £299 for a floor light. I used to read a lot of books and contemplated one of these, but as you say Mac, a box of bulbs is less financial pain. I have a couple of Anglepoise lamps bought on offer from Amazon and I would just use one of them instead if I get into reading books again.

 

[Saint-Just]

Anglepoise are such a design classic... It must be possible to fit them with a variable LED that would allow you to use the light temperature that suits your mood/need, no?

 

[MaC]

If they're LED's then they run cold. It's very energy efficient, but that gentle warmth was an extra nice thing when I'm sitting upstairs sewing or reading in the small hours. Especially in this cold time of year.

The new light was very good to work under last night, no complaints at all about that. But while it's 'light', it's not tricking my mind into thinking of gently sunny mornings

 

[Saint-Just]

My daughter has a LED "chain" in her room that she controls from a remote, and can get every colour it was coded for. I know not much about light, other than the "white" is temperature-related (the whiter the hotter) yet I understand that a warm light is closer to the red/oranges while a cold light inches towards blue.
Just pointless rambles from me, I think I am trying to get you to define a little bit better the type of light you want. @RickDastardly is probably the most technologically minded of us to translate that into a liveable option. Rich (@Nice65 ) is a bit of a Jaimie too...

 

[MaC]

The 'Technical Reference Manuals', and GFSon1, know I'm looking for a new light, so something will turn up

I do have a light chain, my cousin sent it to me, it's a beautiful thing, artisan made metal flowers that look like a garland, and I'm pretty sure it's remote control thing has different colours, etc.,
I keep meaning to put that up, might give it a shot in my workroom

 

[Stew]

Warm white led bulbs are quite common.
What is the current lamp fitting type?

 

[MaC]

It's an E14. It's a titchy little thing. The new bulb gives me 60W and costs pennies to run. It's a good light, just not 'quite' the light I want.

M

 

[5teep]

I bought one of these for a friend last month, it's a SAD light, very bright (adjustable) but only sits on a desk

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BGKBDP4Z/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[5teep]

But a SAD bulb would work well in a lamp

 

[Nice65]

There’s a bit on colour temp in here.

https://www.any-lamp.com/blog/how-to-choose-e14-bulb

 

[5teep]

https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/sewing-saviours/livarno-home-led-daylight-lamp/p58605

 

[MaC]

Hmmm.

At that price it's got to be worth trying it for the other bench
Thank you :big thumb:

 

[MaC]

Right then. This is worth buying Certainly well worth buying for £12.99

It's a really, really simple light, but it's a very good, clear, and useable light.
Made in Germany, not China.

I am very pleased with it, and tempted to buy another one for another desk light

https://uk.cat-ret.assets.lidl/catalog5media/uk/article/378535/gallery/zoom/378535_042.jpg

M

 

[Greg]

You can buy E14 smart bulbs.

I cannot stand cold white LEDs. Warm white LEDs are usually marketed at 2700k and provide a similar tone of light to an incandescent bulb.

 

[MaC]

This cheap Lidl's light is a warm cheerful bright light. Nothing like the gloomy blue, and it's not a cold light.
It's only 18 little LED's and I have no idea how well it will last, but I'm really pleased with it. It's lovely to read or sew under. My watercolours are beside me just now and I've just had a quick brush over with colours and they're clear, they look 'right'.

Good £12.99 worth. Very simple and plain, but it's a work light.