UK - how to find colour temperature on an energy saving lightbulb

KarlTh

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Over in the USA I gather it's normal to explicitly state the colour temperature on bulbs. Here it isn't, but I've found how to establish it.

On the bulb and/or box will be a three figure number - something like "827" is pretty standard. The last two figures x 100 give the colour temperature - in this case 2700K (yep, pretty yellow and useless for plants).

Hope this is useful.
 
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