Paraffin lamps and cookers

[charles_reed]

Depends on the purpose you are putting them to

If it's a pleasant atmosphere and a bit of heat, oil lamps win hands down.

Add some LEDs for actual illumination and you're sorted

Pete

Now LEDs weren't thought of, in the time about which I'm reminiscing, and trying to read by oil lights was a prime source of eye-failure.

Any pleasant atmosphere, engendered by the gentle illumination of oil lamps, will soon be dissipated by any LED light.

Still everyone to their taste - I'm only an enthusiast for LEDs for screens and head-torches - my halogens account for <6% of my daily use and any cut by using LEDs would be more than offset by the morgue-like illumination they produce.

 

[prv]

any cut by using LEDs would be more than offset by the morgue-like illumination they produce.

Not if you use the right ones. That's why I specifically said "warm white". I have cool white ones over the chart table and galley and the difference is substantial.

Pete

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Not if you use the right ones. That's why I specifically said "warm white". I have cool white ones over the chart table and galley and the difference is substantial.

Pete

But it's still a matter of preference. I prefer the cold white ones - they seem brighter to me. And I am given to understand that they are nearer daylight colour than the warm white ones.

 

[Avocet]

Of the soot that Avocet's parafin lamp produces, quite a bit of it doesn't get into my lungs - it's on the bottom of the heat shield over the lamp!

 

[prv]

But it's still a matter of preference. I prefer the cold white ones - they seem brighter to me. And I am given to understand that they are nearer daylight colour than the warm white ones.

But Charles thinks they're "morgue like"

Both of your points are correct:

Cool white are brighter than warm white, which is why they're preferred in white nav lights and why I have them over the chart table and galley for task lighting. (You have to use warm if you're going to use white LEDs in sidelights, though, otherwise the colours come out wrong.)

They are nearer to daylight - but they're never going to be as bright as real daylight. And most people's brains are programmed to see low-intensity at daylightish frequencies as "cold" and unfriendly - perhaps it's like a dim winter twilight sun? Whereas frequencies closer to fires, tungsten filaments, etc are acceptable even if not so bright, because that's what we're used to indoors.

You strange arctic person are obviously wired unusually

Pete

 

[AntarcticPilot]

You strange arctic person are obviously wired unusually

Pete

It's the 24 hours daylight!