Very cool LED Edison bulbs with a medium-warm temperature. No discernible flicker.
We have a little 8-bulb "Sputnik" style chandelier in the dining room, have been through a few types of bulbs. Our first set were 2700k LED bulbs that flickered too much for my wife, who gets migraines. The next set were very warm looking incandescent bulbs that were almost too amber for me (not great for reading instruction manuals on the dining table). And they got VERY hot, even heating up the switch plate. Made me a bit nervous. These bulbs seem perfect and we're quite pleased. LIKES I love the look of these twisty LED elements -- it's a really attractive "vintage" look and much cooler looking than the stick-like elements in the prior LED bulbs. The color temperature is not as aggressively warm as the incandescent bulbs, but they are definitely on the "warm and cozy" side vs. the sterile blue-white temperature from cooler LEDS. They run quite cool, which makes sense as they draw 1/10th the wattage of the incandescent bulbs -- no more worrying about the switchplate feeling warm to the touch. Ours are connected to a KASA smart dimmer switch we got here on Amazon, and don't flicker a whit that I can see even on the lowest settings. NO SO LIKES Bulbs like these still don't dim with the rheostat-like smoothness of incandescent bulbs. If you try to turn them on at, say, 10%, nothing happens -- they just won't activate that low. But once you have them on (40% seems to be the lowest reliable setting) you can dim them back down quite low if you want. It's just a bit "notchy" and inconsistent on very low power levels. From the middle to high settings, there is no issue. NOTE ON BRIGHTNESS I think I saw a review suggesting these bulbs weren't bright enough for some. I think the claimed "40-watt equivalent" is about right. My old-timey memory of incandescent bulbs suggests a single 40-watt bulb should be good enough for a reading lamp that's just over your shoulder, but not enough to light up a room. I can say for certain that eight of them in one fixture are absolutely blinding, and make so much light I can't imagine ever using them at full power. We set them at about 30-50% for dining in our smallish dining area. NOTE ON COLOR TEMPERATURE We use mostly 2700k LED bulbs in the house, which to my eyes look most like old-school incandescent lights. These are ostensibly 2200, which should be a bit warmer (something my wife likes in the dining room). My experience is that they look quite warm at lower power, and get whiter looking at high power (never the cold blue-white of fluorescents or 4-5000k LEDs, which to me look like hospital exam room lights). I think they strike a good balance. Five Stars for these handsome, dimmable, cool-running, energy efficient, warm color temperature Edison-style LED bulbs. Read more
