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LED lights and headaches.

  • 14-10-2011 8:33pm
    #1
    TomTom
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 3,290 ✭✭✭


    This is not a medical advice post, just a curiosity post.

    I recently changed out two bulbs in my kitchen for new GU10 LED bulbs, 6watt to be precise. Ever since then, if i am in the kitchen for more than 10 minutes I get a headache in the top right of my head. I put it down to circumstance but repeated testing with myself as the test subject has more or less confirmed it for me.

    I would have been under the presumption that LED would be less likely to cause a headache as they have no flicker. I do have issue with florescent and often notice them flickering while others don't.

    I looked up a bit online trying to make the bridge between the two but alas the brain is too complex for a lay person to make an accurate deduction. Just wondering if anyone can explain the phenomena to me.

    Also, yes I am replacing the bulbs...begrudgingly as they were 20 euro each.


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  • #2
    Lighting_Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭Lighting_Man


    Hey Tom Tom,

    While LED chip are new technology their is still a degree of flicker from the lamps. This is not as noticeable as old fluorescent lamps on magnetic control gear but it is still there.

    However glare may be the issue in your space because the LED chip is lower down in the GU10 housing than the filament on a halogen lamp.

    You could rectify this on most GU10 downlight housing by using a baffle adapter between the lamp and the light fixture. This puts the LED chip further back into the ceiling void which removes stray light and the glare from the installation.

    Search on-line for "MR16 round black baffle adaptor" and you'll see what I mean.


    (love your satellite navigation system by the way) :D


  • #3
    0lddog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    TomTom wrote: »
    ......Also, yes I am replacing the bulbs...begrudgingly as they were 20 euro each.

    ( Very O/T for the forum )

    There is a recent thread on this over on TMF

    http://boards.fool.co.uk/led-lightbulbs-12387706.aspx?sort=postdate


  • #4
    Lighting_Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭Lighting_Man


    I did see that Tom Tom was replacing the lamps he'd bought but thought the suggestion would be useful for anyone who stumbled across the thread (as I did)

    Can you explain O/T and TMF?

    Sorry


  • #5
    0lddog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    Lighting_Man wrote: »
    ....Can you explain O/T and TMF?...

    O/T - well the name of this forum is 'Health Sciences' so I'd find it hard to claim to a Mod that my post was not Off Topic :o

    TMF - The Motley Fool:)


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