lights and color temp.

[Bob I]

Originally Posted by whaase

I've been wondering this for awhile and now I'll ask I'm not understanding how a flourescent bulb that is 6500k is fairly blue. Yet a 10k MH bulb in ice white. Or actinic bulbs are 7100k and a 10k is white. Anyone care to teach me?

Walter

Well to begin with at is a FLUOrescent tube, and a 6500K fluorescent will not be blue or even close to it. Actinic bulbs are not 7100K. Anyhoo the way I understand color temp is related to burning of metals. That does not help, but the higher the temp of a bulb the more blue it will be until it becomes purple, and then black.