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Today Suffolk County Council swapped an all new LED lamp for the old high pressure sodium lamp outside our house. Looks very bright but luckily our house is in between the lamp and our backyard from which I stargaze. Let's hope in my lifetime, the Council continues to turn the street lights off at midnight. I will let you know how I and the new lamp get on!
George from Lumenstoft.
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Sorry xtreenchaos, I am not a lighting expert. The new lamp looks like a flat panel with beads, I assume are the LED's under it. There are similar style white LED's ones further down the same road. (maybe 100 metres).
Maybe I should be thankful they are NOT WHITE outside my house as I read the white ones are harder to filter out when imaging because they use a much wider spectrum.
I found this interesting web page.
http://luxreview.com/article/2015/01/i-m-not-anti-led-but
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thay sound like leds mate, it don't matter what colour thay are mate if the light don't go up, only if there in the line of sight, as I said just above my ones is pure blackness, I notice a complete change in the darkness as soon as thay was fitted. charl, ps the only filter I use is in the day for solar.
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They have been changing them in Lowestoft the last six months George, they have erected a number of new ones in place of the old on the road. What I did notice over the Christmas period come midnight they switched the sodiums off but left the LEDs on, at the moment it is back to normal midnight switch off of all light on minor roads. I have a sodium light at the end of my garden and when I asked the council if they could shade it they done it within 24 hours, that was six year ago and the shade is still there, am happy as I am reopening the garden observatory
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