Color temperature measurement - can we do it with TCS3200

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HI All -

I've been working on measuring the color temperature, can we measure the color temperature using TCS3200 or pl suggest if there are easier/better methods to measure the color temperature

Thanks in advance

Ramesha

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Here is a manual;
https://www.mouser.com/catalog/specsheets/TCS3200-E11.pdf

The manual says "The output is a square wave (50% duty cycle) with frequency directly proportunal to light intensity (irradiance)".

So you can certainly measue how strong the light is but its not clear to me that you can measure color temperature though there are color filters in the device.

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Looks like you can measure relative intensity through R, G, and B filters so I would fully expect you could map those values to color temperature.