I'm working out the details of a workbench for electronics, and part of that includes working out lighting solutions. My workbench will be near a window to take advantage of natural daylight, but I will still need lighting for working at night. My initial choice is halogen lighting, because of the light quality that it gives. Opinions will differ on this, but the LED bulbs that I have tried so far have been pretty poor for task lighting (reading, soldering projects, general small parts projects). I have tried GE and Cree bulbs, both soft white and daylight, with CRI ratings of 90+. Later I found out that CRI ratings can be deceptive. One reason being is that CRI rating is a very limited sample of the full spectrum of light. Another is that LED manufacturers often only give the CRI rating without any specific details, such as the R9 value, or leaving out R values altogether in the CRI rating of their products. And LED light in general has bothered my eyes, including computer displays, which probably also use poor quality LED lighting. But I am curious about higher quality LED lighting, such as products made by Yuji and Waveform. Other concerns are flicker, and that some LED lights tend to yellow faster over time than others. Anyway, the prices of higher quality LED lighting does seem high, but if the higher quality stuff is really that much better than what can be bought from the bigbox stores, such as bulbs made by GE and Cree, it would be worth it to have good task lighting that is power efficient.
I am also concerned with electrical noise from LED lighting. I have seen some people here on the forum mention turning off LED lighting when using their test gear because of switching noise from LED lighting. Is this still the situation with higher quality LED lighting? Are there solutions other than turning off the lights? And how about with dimming? Because I definitely do like having the ability to dim task lights.
Are any of you using LED lighting maybe be Yuji, Waveform, or some other manufacturer of high quality LED lighting? Which products? How are you using them? What has your experience been?