Oh yes! Right - I remember now. Sorry about the headlights remark, and thanks for reminding me.
Nope - can’t do the frosted halogens, either. I checked them out in the displays. There’s another thing called scotopic sensitivity, where various freqs can be seen with the eye itself, but the brain cannot process properly. That can cause severe headaches, body pain, mental confusion, etc. Others have to use different shades, but my problem is in the visible red range. So, I just wear turquoise shades when I have to go inside any place that is brightly lit. It’s far more common than ever gets diagnosed, but then we have the problem of lighting being harmful to various humans, ever without epilepsy being present.
I’ve taken them off (briefly only!) to look through many interior lighting displays, and found most to be problematic. There are some other ways to control it, such as wall paint that will not reflect the offending freqs - but that’s at home. In public? Shades!
Anyway - I’ve noticed that both the halogen and fluorescent lights can certainly aggravate those kinds of problems. The Utilitech lights I mentioned, like other LEDS presently on the market, produce softer light - and sometimes, you even see the blue LED’s. Anyway, I still favor those, because I know they aren’t capable of harming anyone, including me. No disposal hassles, either, but with the same or better efficiency and the pricing is better than most brands. The worst of it with LEDS’s is just that they are so directional that it’s harder to produce good ambient light. These have overcome most of that. So as far as I’m concerned, we really don’t need to wait any more to convert. Its only annoying to pay as much for a single bulb as you’d ordinarily spend on a couple of cheap 4-packs of incandescent, but if you bought those, you’d also have to change out the bulbs several more times to equal the lifetime of the LEDS. The changes are usually no big - but if you have a high ceiling or a chandelier to deal with? Royal pain, and a waste of time, these days. I got so sick of in in one place where the fixture was over a staircase, that I had the chandelier rigged to drop down for bulb changes.
But this time, I did the LED conversion all at once after a test run with a single fixture for my small place about 9 months ago, and haven’t touched a bulb since. I’m really enthusiastic about it! I’ll only upgrade now if a really significant improvement comes along. Tere may be a ways to go for large industrial applications, but for residential? We’re already there.
