Good-Bad Lighting Mix at Nissan in Boone

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Page updated June 15, 2001

This Nissan dealer in Boone has some good and some bad. The fixtures at the top are nice, sky-friendly full cutoff lights. However, these are spoiled by the floodlights mounted below them. Car dealers often complain that the orange light of the more sky-friendly sodium vapor bulbs does not yield true colors at night, but it turns out that

mixing in just ten percent white light (like from metal halides) with 90% sodium gives the color balance needed and helps save the sky.