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I am not sure if this goes here or in the Shopping/Consumer Products forum, so I will post it here.
I was wondering, why are 6500K LED bulbs so hard to find in the United States? I heard they are readily available in Europe. I found one set of four bulbs on Amazon, but I have yet to try them out. The reason is that I want to match some 6500K CFLs in our guest bathroom vanity lamps (we went with these since we thought it looked good with the gray walls), and I don't want to replace all of the bulbs at once and have them go to waste. Anyone who has installed 6500K CFLs in bathroom vanity lamps will struggle finding replacements in the United States. Most "daylight" LED bulbs sold in the United States are 5000K.
So, why is it so hard to find 6500K LED bulbs in the United States?
If you look at a lot of the search results, many of them are 5000K. Also, most big-box retailers don't carry 6500K LED bulbs in the United States; typical standard for "daylight" LED bulbs is 5000K, while 6500K CFLs were very common when CFLs were the dominant lighting technology.
Is this one of those situations where you're making a distinction over something most of us would not notice?
5000K and 6500K are noticeably different. I tried putting one of our 5000K LED bulbs in the same fixture and I could clearly notice the difference; the 5000K was noticeably yellower. I instead swapped our last 6500K CFL from a lamp in our guest bedroom and put it in the bathroom vanity light, and put a 5000K LED bulb in the guest bedroom lamp for the bulbs to match.
I am not sure if this goes here or in the Shopping/Consumer Products forum, so I will post it here.
I was wondering, why are 6500K LED bulbs so hard to find in the United States? I heard they are readily available in Europe. I found one set of four bulbs on Amazon, but I have yet to try them out. The reason is that I want to match some 6500K CFLs in our guest bathroom vanity lamps (we went with these since we thought it looked good with the gray walls), and I don't want to replace all of the bulbs at once and have them go to waste. Anyone who has installed 6500K CFLs in bathroom vanity lamps will struggle finding replacements in the United States. Most "daylight" LED bulbs sold in the United States are 5000K.
So, why is it so hard to find 6500K LED bulbs in the United States?
You are more likely to find a match with a mismatched color temperature brand / model by happenstance than by locating a specific bulb match.
If you are dead set on finding a matching temperature and brand, I will share that eBay and Menard's (we don't even have a Menard's locally but they have been popping up with exact matches for discontinued / unicorn parts that I can't find anywhere else.
Such as a simple, 4-rocker, single-gang switch. Ironically now they're all over the place, but at the time I was looking, they were hard to come by without going into a computer controlled Lutron.
I've used 6500K LEDs in a bird aviary on a time schedule to create periods of "full spectrum" daylight. I find that light too harsh for other general applications.
Don't know where you aren't looking OP but they certainly are available in the US from multiple sources.
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