For Accurate Color Matching Technology at a fraction of the cost choose ACCU-TECH Full Spectrum lighting products.
Spraybooth Lighting for SUPERIOR Results...
When's the last time you've heard owners and managers complain about painters not being able to properly and consistently match colors? The painters first response is typically to blame the paint brand, switch paint supplies, and then still experience the same type of problems. In most cases by simply replacing the  fluorescent tubes with the proper "Color Corrected"  tubes, color matching problems decrease dramatically.
Choosing the RIGHT Light for your Spraybooth
There are two main factors to consider when purchasing  "TRUE" Color Corrected Tubes:
1. The color rendering index (CRI) needs to be a minimum of 90 or above. Don't be fooled by lamps that are rated 80-85 CRI and still being sold as Color Corrected Full Spectrum.
2. Kelvin Temperature needs to be between 5000-6500.
What's the COST?
While it's true "Colored Corrected" tubes do cost considerably more to manufacturer as compared to conventional Cool White tubes you don't have to pay a fortune to  equip your shop with High Quality fluorescent tubes. Accu-Tech is committed to providing the same quality you would expect to pay $12-$14 per tube from our competitors for as low as $ 6.95 per tube in full case quantities of 30 or more tubes.

Technical Terms

Color Rendering Index (CRI) A key performance characteristic, color rendering, is the ability of the light source to represent colors in objects. The relative measure of this ability is color rendering index or CRI which rates the light sources on a scale of 0 to 100.

The higher the CRI, the more vibrant or close to natural the colors of objects appear. Natural daylight has been assigned a CRI of 100 at a Kelvin temperature of between 5000-7500K. The Accu-Tech performs at 90 CRI which produces excellent color rendition when color matching is critical.

Correlated Color Temperature(Kelvin),  Color temperature or chromaticity refers to the color appearance of the light that comes from a light source. Also referred to as Correlated Color Temperature (CTT), the apparent color of light source is measured in Kelvin or "K".

Imagining a piece of iron (a horseshoe, for instance) in a fire can help you visualize color temperature in lamp types designated as "warm" or "cool". At first the iron becomes "red-hot". Red is the color of light be generated by the metal at a certain temperature. Continuing to heat the metal makes it "white-hot", and heating it further would cause it to become "blue-hot" (like flash bulbs or stars).

In describing color temperatures a low color temperature corresponds to a "warm" or a red yellow appearance like incandescent lamps at 2700 Kelvin. "Cool" light comes from light sources like cool white fluorescent lamps operating at 4100 Kelvin. The higher the Kelvin temperature, the whiter and then the bluer the light. In the case of the Spectralite at 5900 Kelvin this produces a color on the blue spectrum very close to natural daylight.

Lumen is the unit that expresses the total quantity of light given off by a source, regardless of direction. A lumen is defined as the amount of light falling on a surface of one square foot, every point which is one foot away from a source of one candlepower. A uniform source of one candlepower placed in a sphere emits 12.57 lumens.

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