Looking for a church with fluorescent lights

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Hi,

I wondered if anybody might know whether these is a church in Cambridge or the surrounding villages that still has fluorescent lights, and has not yet converted to LEDs?

I get migraines very quickly under exposure to LED lights, and we have had to leave our local church because they changed to the new low energy LED lights.

I would like to find a church that still has the old lights so we could join and be part of the community. Ideall one with a small group of musicians would be good as we play accoustic instruments and would perhaps like to have a small group to join.

My DS is home schooling so we potentially have a lot of time to contribute to a community.

Thanks!

That most be so restricting - poor you. I will check, but I think ours are LED lights. Our smaller church might not be, but we only have six services a year there.

Would it help if those lights pointed in your direction were old-style? Or would the existence of LED ones further away still have the effect? Ours are quite directional, so we could probably create an area that has no lights pointing at it (indeed, before the last round of bulb-replacement, there seemed to be plenty of dark spots!).

Thank you very much for replying. Tbh even six services a year would be nice. Or knowing that the building exists at all would be helpful if there are no led lights in it, as we would then have somewhere we could visit.

The main problem I'm having in church is that the CofE had those ultra bright LED spotlights fitted in all the big church sanctuaries. They tend to have a 100Hz to 300Hz strobe flicker which is the sweet spot for triggering migraines. The church I used to belong to also had big screens fitted which also had the 100Hz flicker, and I had to leave.

If you have any churches that don't have those huge spotlights, or even where you have enough window and would be willing to turn the spotlights off for some services, then that would be enormously helpful.

I think there are quite a lot of people in my situation because I've heard there is now an online church just for people who have had to leave their own churches because of the lights. I'm home schooling my son though and it would be so great to have an actual community of people that we could join.

We don't have leds, can't be the only church (we are 200 miles away so no good to you) try emailing the diocese

@mitogoshigg Thanks, that's really heartening to know. I will try that.

Did you try the diocese? Given that any significant changes made in churches have to be approved by the diocese, they may well know what churches have LED lighting and display screens; if they don't, I'd hope they would be willing to begin to compile the information, in order to help people like you.

I asked DH about this, he says there is now a standard for LED lighting IEEE 1789, but older/cheaper/failing fixtures can be worse. He installed some recently that had adjustable flicker rate from 500Hz up. So a church that's had it's lighting done recently or as part of a new build is likely to have better specifications.