“I used to be a newspaper reporter so when this happened I started asking all these questions, so that background ... LED streetlights are emitting a purple hue rather than the standard white light.

How well purple LED lights work at night also came up in the article. The short answer is, not great. It quoted a researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as saying people driving ...

White LED bulbs are commonplace in households by now, mostly due to their low power usage and high reliability. Crank up the ...

Although blue LED lights are, in principle, deep blue in color, they do naturally have a bit of a purple and violet tint, he explains. It’s possible that the lamps themselves could be ...

And then it turned purple. In the case of Duke Power, the color shift has affected only about 1% of the LED streetlights that the utility had installed. Still, that amounts to some 5,000 lights ...

Schaumburg is among the places where the purple lights have appeared. The village plans to replace 117 such fixtures along Meacham and Irving Park roads over the next few weeks.

the City of Vancouver says the LED street lights now shining purple are the result of a manufacturing defect. "There is a coating on these fixtures that has failed," said Eric Mital, with the City ...

IT’S NOT AS PROTECTIVE AS THE OLDER LIGHTS USED TO BE, I’M JUST REALLY NOT A FAN. REPORTER: NEWSCHOPPER 9 SHOWED US THE DEFECTIVE PURPLE LED LIGHTS THURSDAY MORNING. A LITTLE LATER IN THE DAY ...

The explanation for the light: a Sacramento Kings exclamation. The space cannon, as the Kings call it, is the team's new victory beam that sends a massive purple LED light into the sky following ...