LED colour

[daryll]

Not sure if this is in the right section

if you are lighting up model buildings (00) gauge , what better LED colour to use , warm white or orange/amber

[Dave John]

Warm white, unless you are modelling very modern buildings that would have a whiter light. 

 

I also find that a spread of light from a number of LEDS run at low currents, a couple of mA or so, gives a more realistic effect. 

[rogerzilla]

"It depends".  Pre-Grouping buildings could be lit with gas mantles (can be quite white depending on the flame height and the mantle material; the thorium oxide used for many decades is whiter and brighter than the current greenish non-radioactive mantles) or just gas jets.  Buildings outside towns would have used candles or oil lamps, which are very yellow indeed.

 

From around the 1930s, new houses in towns probably had electric lighting, for which warm white of about 3000K is correct.

[rogerzilla]

I did a bit more research - normal household bulbs are more like 2700K than 3000K (I was thinking of tungsten halogen).  Thorium mantles are about 2800K, maybe more on full power, so close enough to electric light.  Candles are about 1800K.

 

I would use yellow for rural buildings and warm white in towns.

 

[ikcdab]

You can paint LEDs to give the colour you want

 Ian