Light Energy Full Spectrum Lighting


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Full Spectrum Lighting improves your indoor environment - you'll be amazed at the difference! It makes reading easy - colors are more accurate, fabric and paint differences are more clearly seen. These lights reduce the glare that causes eyestrain, a great improvement for people with vision difficulties. When used around computers and television, the light helps to reverse the cathode soft x- ray radiation effects that result in drowsiness. They save 80% on energy costs and last 10 times as long (10,000 to 33,000 hours) as incandescent lights. We feature three different styles of lamps designed for computer and office use, studying, crafts, sewing, reading, or shop use. We also have screw-in bulbs that will fit with most regular fixtures and most standard sizes of fluorescent tubes. These products are an absolute must for students and anyone using a computer - they are life enhancing for indoor pets and your plants will benefit significantly! This type of lighting is essential for maintaining your health and eyesight. *IMPORTANT INFORMATION:* Eyestrain is the number one health concern of workers in America. Eyestrain can begin in less than twenty minutes under incandescent, halogen and fluorescent light. The more closely we can approximate daylight, the less fatigue and irritation we experience. This is especially true for reading and computer work. Full spectrum lighting helps reduce eyestrain even over hours of exposure. It eliminates the stressful effects that the yellowish incandescent, fluorescent and halogen light has on the body's nerve endings. This results in reduced fatigue, superior concentration and an overall calmer feeling. Just compare reading under your standard lighting and under full spectrum light and you will immediately notice how little glare there is and how crisp and clear the letters are. Full spectrum light closely simulates sunlight and therefore can be used to improve conditions that result from a lack of sunlight, especially during the darker winter months. Winter blues and Seasonal Affected Disorder (S.A.D.) are examples of this. Full spectrum lights are extremely energy efficient, produce very little heat and will fit in most household and office fixtures. They are also ideal for fixtures that have low wattage or power safety requirements. LIGHT ENERGY features Full Spectrum Light products developed by lighting pioneer Dr. John Nash Ott, plus the most advanced light boxes in the world from American Environmental Products, and additional products from other highly rated manufacturers. All of our Full Spectrum Light products have a 30-day money back guarantee and a one-year warranty.

How Much Sunlight Do I Need?
Experience shows that the body needs a minimum of 30 minutes a day, ideally 2 hours. This will keep the body functioning well, however it must be renewed daily. You don't store the sun's energy. Therefore, during dark winter days, when you are indoors a lot, full spectrum lights can help supply this need for sunlight. Light with a brightness of 2500 lux for up to 6 hours, over the day, will generally supply the minimum requirement.

Why Do I Feel Tired Under Most Artificial Lighting?
The yellow color of most lighting irritates the nerve endings of your skin and keeps you in a constant state of low-grade stress. Full spectrum lighting does not have this effect. In addition, if your regular lights are fluorescent, they flicker 60 times per second. This flicker is just above your visual limit of 45 times per second. So while you don't always notice it consciously, it is still acting as an irritation to your body. Using “electronic” ballasts can eliminate this flicker. These ballasts, in your light fixtures, boost the flicker rate up to 25,000 times per second.

What Causes Glare when Reading Under Artificial Lighting?
The yellow color from incandescent, halogen and fluorescent lights does not absorb into white paper, but bounces back creating glare and eyestrain. This does not occur in sunlight, nor under full spectrum lighting.

How Can Light Counteract Radiation from Computer Terminals and Unshielded Fluorescent Tubes?
Computers, TV's, and fluorescent lights are cathode-ray devices and as such radiate soft x-rays up to three feet. These rays penetrate the body and cause iron in the hemoglobin of the blood to clump. This reduces oxygen flow and results in drowsiness. When sunlight or full spectrum light enters the eyes, it is transmitted throughout the body, including the bloodstream, where it causes an unclumping of the blood counteracting the adverse effect.

Light from the sun - A nutrient that travels at the speed of 186,000 miles a second from a source 93 million miles away and rates with pure food, water and air as a part of the life support system on earth.

But light also comes from manufactured sources, and therein lies a number of problems. The wrong kind of artificial light can make students irritable in school, reduce production among factory workers, and make office workers sluggish and prone to error.

Scientific studies show that not getting enough light can interfere with calcium absorption in the body and contribute to brittle bones. Low levels of outdoor light and ineffective artificial light indoors can also lead to Seasonal Affected Disorder (S.A.D.) and winter blues.

The light that some scientists consider a super nutrient is full spectrum light, which comes from the sun or is simulated from specially designed full spectrum fluorescent tubes and high spectrum bulbs. Normal incandescent and halogen bulbs, as well as most fluorescent tubes, produce an overabundance of yellow and orange wavelengths. These are hard on the human nervous system. The glare produced by these lights is very hard and irritating on the eyes.

The full spectrum light rating is designated by two factors: The first is Color Rendering Index (CRI), which designates the proportions of each color contained within the light. The second is Kelvin Heat Rating (degrees Kelvin). Natural outdoor light has a CRI of 100 and a Kelvin rating of 7500 degrees Kelvin. Although there are no legal guidelines, 5000 degrees Kelvin and 90 CRI (or above) is considered full-spectrum. In comparison, standard cool white fluorescent has a CRI of 68 while warm white fluorescent is 56 CRI. Standard incandescent bulbs have a 40 CRI.

Under natural light or full spectrum light, that duplicates natural light, there is better visual acuity and increased production and accuracy. Students and office workers experience far less fatigue and chance of error. Absenteeism due to illness is decreased and people generally have more energy. When Data Control of Kansas City redesigned their facility using full spectrum light they experienced a savings of $235,000 annually from reduced computer errors by the employees who were entering the data.