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nanojg
04/07/2011, 07:19 AM
all cool white or a mix of neutral, warm, cool?

What do you think?

What about blue, all royal blue?

avaneaton2000
04/07/2011, 08:36 AM
Only neutral whites. And 2:1 royal blue to neutral whites. You can also throw a small amount of blues in but too many and everything will look like windex.

bamf25
04/07/2011, 12:04 PM
I am doing a breakdown of 39 royal blue, 4 blue, 13 cool whites, and 13 natural whites.

avaneaton2000
04/07/2011, 12:05 PM
Go all neutral whites, no reason to mix CW & NW.

nanojg
04/07/2011, 12:17 PM
Do you have any pic comparisons between neutral white tanks and cool white? I have 12 cool whites and 12 royal blues on my 24 nano and love the color.

avaneaton2000
04/07/2011, 12:32 PM
google, or look on nano reef. The LED disinformation that is here on RC is horrendous. If you look on flashlight forums they have already hashed this out back in '09 that neutral white has significantly better color rendering that cool white does.

The people and companies that know what they are doing are all using NW instead of CW. Look up the data sheets there is a numerical value for color rendering (the higher the value the better the color rendering) and NW is in the 80's and CW is in the 60's