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Is there a "Full Spectrum" bulb with no Spike in the Blue Range?

 
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All of the “full spectrum” LED lights that I have seen for sale have a huge unnatural spike in the blue range, when you look at their color spectrums.

Sunlight does not have this huge spike in the blue range.

I have read that this blue spike in these CRI 90+ LED 5000k bulbs is not healthy for our eyes.

I have looked and looked for an LED or incandescent at 5000k that has a spectrum that resembles the sun’s spectrum.

Is there such a bulb?

I attached an image of the sun's spectrum and one of a 5000K High CRI LED (with the blue spike).

Thanks.
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There are some using UV leds: Yuji VTC 5730 for example.
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Spectrum from the Datasheet
 
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the high blue is for plants vegetative growth cycle.
 
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Well, we found a bulb that is not an LED, and that is not a CFL, or incandescent.

It is the Finally Bulb, from finallybulbs dot com.

We love these bulbs.

They put out a warm glow, one that is soft white.

These are not LEDs: They do NOT put out an awful blue-ish cast that is hard to look at, and may be damaging to the eyes, according to some research.

These are not CFLs: They do NOT put out a horrible yellow-ish cast.

These look more natural than LEDs and CFLs because the spectrum of these bulbs is similar to that of the sun (and incandescent bulbs - which will be banned in a couple years).

Really happy with these bulbs.

Mac
 
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This is a compact fluorescent light with the ballast in the bulb. And contrary to their claims it only has a CRI of 80 (see Tech Specs on their site), where as CRI 90 is pretty much standart for good LEDs, CRI 95 is on the marked as well, and CRI 97 can be bought as well.
At 60lumen/watt their lamp is at the low end of the efficiency range of LEDs. They also only rate it at 16500 hours of operation, which is disappointing when compared to LEDs.
 
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Check out Happy Leaf LED Grow Lights. I have been using them for over a year. By far, they are the best grow lights I have every used for any stage of growth. https://www.happyleafled.com/
 
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