The purple lights aren't particularly good at ... t intentional — it's the result of a spectacular, if aesthetic, failure of some LED chips. The signature purple glow has popped up, then ...

The aim is visibility, not aesthetics ... defects. One LED supplier, Acuity, took note of the change and offered an explanation: “The referenced ‘purple light’ effect is due to a spectral ...

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 ...

Instead of appearing white to the common driver, they could give off a violet or even full-on purple light. This is nothing compared to the biggest downside of LED lighting, but it's still a ...

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 ...

“This is an aesthetic ... are putting in these LED lights overall, because it’s just much better for the drivers,” Marques said. If drivers spot any more of the purple lights, the DOT ...

some LED streetlights in FPL’s service area are emitting a violet or purple hue rather than the standard white light because of a manufacturer defect. As certain LED lights age, there is a ...

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 ...

There are plenty of reasons you might see porches lit with colors beyond standard fluorescent or LED ... purple lighting in ...

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 LED lights, Duda told us, are defective, causing the purple bluish hue. “It’s really just a defect in the LEDs where the blue light comes through because there’s a layer that gets rubbed ...