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Manufacture your own artificial sun! Ingenious:
Anyone want to estimate the total cost (assuming free/recycled dish)? I’m thinking this could also work for art studios? Cafés? Forward-thinking workspace architects? BnBs/hotels/gyms etc etc.
So, is SAD definitely not related to vitamin D? If it is, this won't work well since it's using a non-UV light source.
^ Not sure. Possibly not. There aren’t many studies. But light does seem to help.
The main finding of this study is that subjects treated with blue light did not improve more than subjects treated with blue-free light; both showed substantial improvement on multiple measures. Failure to find differences may have resulted from methodological constraints, including a small sample size. Recruitment began mid-winter during an unusually mild season, and the trial was terminated earlier than planned by the study sponsor due to a failure to detect difference. However, if confirmed in a larger randomized sample, these results suggest that blue wavelengths are not necessary for successful SAD treatment.
I can certainly imagine fooling myself into a bright sunny morning/evening mood with that setup. My current studio lighting is depressing and the house is dark as a dungeon for about 8 months in the shadow of hills and trees.
We have a Phillips GoLITE Blu and it’s not bad at all but it doesn’t look as good as that setup, no way! Good point though, will research more.
Or you could just use a Fresnel lamp. No shortage of Strand Prelude "F"s on eBay for about 20 quid each - relatively easy job to yank out the existing GY9.5 fitting and install an LED instead. Whole thing is made of aluminium and is its own heatsink.
Is SAD inversely related to melatonin levels?
If so, it seems that green light needs to be blocked as well as blue, to allow melatonin, therefore will green light,along with blue, help with SAD?
Whole thing is made of aluminium and is its own heatsink.
Would it handle that 100W cob LED (link in the vid description)?
Well, it can handle a 750W incandescent lamp so I guess so.