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Happy Labor Day!
Sep. 2nd, 2024 02:01 pmToday, DHL delivered the YujiLEDs package that failed to deliver on Friday, so I’m sorry that driver was stuck working today. Also, super excited to have the package. It had labels for customs because it shipped direct from China. So exciting!
These bulbs are my attempt at a solution to the fact that our Future Exercise Room has now windows, and that makes R. sad. When I was doing the lighting plan, I thought about a windowless exercise room, and R. in the winter, and I was like, hey, I know I hate recessed cans, but can we put one can over each probable location for his bike or other exercise equipment (treadmill, etc.), and have it _locally_ and _individually_ switched? I could put a crazy bulb in that and simulate sunlight. I spent an unholy amount of time researching very high CRI bulbs that put out a LOT of lumens and I picked YujiLEDs. Then we had a whole freaking circus / broadway show / rolling angst session over the lack of windows in the exercise room that somehow got combined with the excessive glazing in the pool bathroom and the sauna, and I reminded him about these bulbs and it turned out that there was a certain amount of yes honey going on when I initially told him about the bulbs (which he initially was actively opposed to but I blew right over that). Anyway, when I showed up the graphs and the spec’s he was cautiously positive so I ordered 2 2-packs to install three in his current exercise space to see what they are like. I took the 4th, and did a little mini light study with it. Boy, this thing packs a punch. I put it in my anglepoise to A/B it with my regular bulb in the anglepoise and I want to be super clear. The bulb I normally have in that lamp is very powerful and quite good CRI. And the YujiLED makes it look sad and terrible by comparison. If you are in the market for powerful lighting to cure your wintertime blues, give this brand serious consideration.
So I’m gonna bring it to the meeting tomorrow (possibly with a lamp so I can demo it — maybe with another bulb, too, hmmm) because I Want to Share.
Other than that, it’s been TikTok and a walk with M., and feeling mildly weird about how quiet it is with T. in his dorm and R. on a bike ride.
These bulbs are my attempt at a solution to the fact that our Future Exercise Room has now windows, and that makes R. sad. When I was doing the lighting plan, I thought about a windowless exercise room, and R. in the winter, and I was like, hey, I know I hate recessed cans, but can we put one can over each probable location for his bike or other exercise equipment (treadmill, etc.), and have it _locally_ and _individually_ switched? I could put a crazy bulb in that and simulate sunlight. I spent an unholy amount of time researching very high CRI bulbs that put out a LOT of lumens and I picked YujiLEDs. Then we had a whole freaking circus / broadway show / rolling angst session over the lack of windows in the exercise room that somehow got combined with the excessive glazing in the pool bathroom and the sauna, and I reminded him about these bulbs and it turned out that there was a certain amount of yes honey going on when I initially told him about the bulbs (which he initially was actively opposed to but I blew right over that). Anyway, when I showed up the graphs and the spec’s he was cautiously positive so I ordered 2 2-packs to install three in his current exercise space to see what they are like. I took the 4th, and did a little mini light study with it. Boy, this thing packs a punch. I put it in my anglepoise to A/B it with my regular bulb in the anglepoise and I want to be super clear. The bulb I normally have in that lamp is very powerful and quite good CRI. And the YujiLED makes it look sad and terrible by comparison. If you are in the market for powerful lighting to cure your wintertime blues, give this brand serious consideration.
So I’m gonna bring it to the meeting tomorrow (possibly with a lamp so I can demo it — maybe with another bulb, too, hmmm) because I Want to Share.
Other than that, it’s been TikTok and a walk with M., and feeling mildly weird about how quiet it is with T. in his dorm and R. on a bike ride.