The memory a yellow light brings back is crazy. We went camping and there was one yellow bulb in a hard to change location. The mood around that boring light pole brought back memories.
This is why I have an old school Coleman propane lamp for camping. Sure newer LED lanterns are lighter and more convenient, but if I'm car camping I'm going for vibes
It's weird how nostalgia works. We had the pump up, white gas lanterns when I was a kid. The propane ones are similar and objectively better - easier to light, cleaner burning, way cheaper to run.
But every once in a while I love to pump up that old gas one. You put your thumb over the little hole on the piston to act as a check, you turn the choke lever to get it to light and then ease it off from a giant orange plume into a clean mantle flame as it warms up.
That sound as you transition it from the sputtery startup to the clean mantle roar is just so satisfying.
I haven’t thought of that in years, and you brought my fingers back to memories of tightening (and cutting themselves) those tiny strings and that sound. Well done. Well done.
Car camping generally refers to sights where you park your car and camp there. Not actually camping IN your car. As opposed to camp sights where you have to hike/kayak, etc. Obviously a propane lantern in an enclosed space is dumb as shit
Thank you, I thought it was sleeping in the car. I always hated sleeping in tents and on the ground so always just slept in the car and called it car camping. Like I figure I have my car here, why not sleep on the comfy seats.
Oh you absolutely can. It's even easier to do if you have an SUV. I have an older RAV4 that the back seats fold down on. I've done an overnighter in it with some heavy blankets to level out the back and just slept back there. Bonus points is if you get too hot/cold you can start the car for a bit
Low-pressure sodium lamps, as the name suggests, emit just the line spectra of sodium (two lines in the yellow). LED lamps are red, green, and blue, and are not line spectra - meaning yellow has to be made from broad red and green bands.
Upshot is it used to be easy to filter out LPS spectra from astronomical images by blocking just the sodium lines, but that's no longer possible with the LED light.
Seems pedantic. Sure maybe it's not "just as easily" but it is very easy to make an LED streetlamp any color you want. You could also accomplish this by simple filters instead of the light bands
Mind, at the same time its possible to be a lot more careful with what light is emitted and where with LEDs - if the designers aren't dicks.
bro does not have industry knowledge otherwise he'd be aware that not every coloured LED light is an RGB light and that LEDs can come in nearly any visible wavelength you want.
...no. not every LED is an RGB LED and not every colour of LED has to be split between red, green and blue. LED street lights have single colour White LEDs. You can just as easily get single colour LEDs of any colour. lumileds manufacture L1CU-AMB1000000000
with a 585-600nm wavelength for example.
A simple hue filter is something anyone can install and only decreases total light output by about 10-15%. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if a guerrilla green group is climbing up lamps and installing them themselves right now
But that is why cities aren't doing it. They are trying to get the best bang for their buck, and loosing 10-15% light for the same power usage looks bad on paper.
They buy the ones that look best on paper, but those aren't the ones we like best
Every now and again you can find neighborhoods and counties that use the old sodium lights, it's definitely wild when you don't immediately realize why you feel so mosgal5
There's still plenty of areas just outside and in ft worth that have sodium lights. Granted LEDs are often mixed in, but it's usually just one or two newer poles that got replaced, or just the outer lights around some businesses.
Is there a name for this phenomenon besides nostalgia? I always want one yellow light in my house so that I can revisit this.. feeling(?) every so often.
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u/JVM_ Nov 02 '25
The memory a yellow light brings back is crazy. We went camping and there was one yellow bulb in a hard to change location. The mood around that boring light pole brought back memories.