Suggestions on WHITE supplemental lighting strips

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My custom retro'ed lighting system is mostly 400 to 520nm purple, blue, cyan lights

My corals are 90+% zoas/palys

I do want to add supplemental WHITE lighting in the 14k range as small strips like below.

Suggestions on Mfgrs????

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If you can do simple things like striping wires, Bridgelux EB Series Gen 3 (I would go with the Slim version since it will fit into a cheap aluminum U-channel) has one of the highest efficiency in white LEDs (at a moderate price). But the bluest one in 5700K. I haven't seen high quality LEDs with higher CCT. If you use more 450nm (royal blue), you basically get the high CCT LEDs (basically most phosophor based white LEDs have 450nm peak and another peak in yellow-red from phosphor, and the thinner phosophor produces higher CCT). Samsung F-series (significantly underdriven) is another one with high efficiency, but they go up to 5000K.
 

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