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Transform your home with the most advanced residential lighting solution.
Transform your home with the most advanced residential lighting solution.
Ketra LED Lighting Products. Visible light is composed of a spectrum of colors that range across the “rainbow” of reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues, indigos, and violets. This includes white light, which is a combination of various color wavelengths. Ketra LED Lighting Products have found that white light is comprised of a range of colors that can be observed when that light is dispersed through a triangular prism.
Typical white LED and fluorescent light sources produce a single color temperature. Once you buy one of these light sources, you’re limited to one color that can’t be changed for different spaces and activities. Even incandescent lighting, which can warm in color as it dims, restricts you to a “fixed curve” with a minimal range of whites.
Dynamic spectrum lighting allows you to tune the amount of energy across the visible spectrum of colors, enabling a wide range of whites, pastels, and saturated colors to be created from a single light source. Crucially, this means that you no longer have to pick the white Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) when selecting a lighting product. After space is built, paint is applied, and furniture is installed, the final color of light can be adjusted to suit the finished space. While this capability represents a powerful step forward for designers and occupants of indoor environments, not all “tunable” or “full-spectrum” light sources are created equally.
Two-channel LED tunable white solutions are typically composed of a “warm white” and “cool white” light source. By adjusting the relative light output of each, you can create a moderate range of “white” colors between the two. This approach is not suited to all applications because you can only generate white colors on a straight line between the two sources. The result is a limited range of whites that typically go down to just 3,000K or 2,700K. Warm dimming at low light levels will not be possible with this approach.
Each of these primary light sources has its own unique spectrum of light. Think of it like a painter’s palette: When mixed together, these “additive primaries” each contribute their unique spectrum to the total mix of light that creates the full spectrum output. The color gamut that can be created is a direct result of each of the contributing primary light sources.
Designers—especially those who focus on high-end, hospitality and luxury spaces—love and rely on the flexibility of dynamic, tunable color. Whether they’re lighting products on shelves, desks in workspaces, fine works of art, or people themselves, they can dial in the light so everything looks its absolute best.