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Old 12-10-2002, 08:05 PM   #10
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Marvin:

I have a mostly north facing window. While it is not nearly high enough, it serves and I love the natural light.

I have always wondered about temp and CRI and what the values were equivalent to. In other words, I have heard before that a 5000+K bulb better simulated natural sunlight - but sunlight has nothing to do with the light that you get from a north window and I wonder if it is too intense to simulate what you would get from a north window. Do you have any thoughts about this? What is the temp and CRI of the light coming into a typical north window? Unobstructed of course.

I have heard a lot of people talk about this and I wonder if they are getting the wrong info about temp because those companies seem to be selling bulbs that simulate sunlight, not the soft, cool reflective light of the sky that comes through a north window.
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