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by toomuchtodo 2880 days ago
Is the circuitry to change LED colors significantly more expensive? That would future proof any light temperature issues.
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Yes.

There's an interesting Wired article, about how teams at Philips struggled to come up with the optimum filter. IIRC, at some point they were using some type of gel to 'tint' the LED light to resemble an incandescent bulb.

Of course, nearly all of this has probably flown out the window, because the bulbs are so cheap now. (The Wired article was from over a decade ago.)

That was the article about the Switch bulbs if I remember correctly. I think the company went out of business. I have a couple of them and they work and look good, but are really heavy and I can't use them in certain applications that were only ever meant to hold up really light incandescents.
It's not circuitry, it's the phosphors used to convert the light from blue to a mix of colors resulting in some form of white.