After i evaluation a product, I sometimes benefit from the problem of combing by the nuance of its strengths and weaknesses to provide you with a concrete buying advice. Unfortunately, there isn't a such nuance to comb with the Philips SceneSwitch LED, because it is, quite merely, EcoLight a very, superb gentle bulb. Let's make this straightforward with some bullet points, shall we? All three versions of the bulb offer a number of brightness settings that you would be able to swap between by turning the bulb off and again on -- like a 3-approach bulb you can use anywhere. All three are even brighter than said at their brightest settings. All three did a wonderful job managing heat build-up, which can affect mild output in some bulbs. All three include a 5-yr warranty (and, as of right now, you may double that to 10 years by registering the bulb on-line inside 60 days of purchase). All three value less than $9, which means that every one pays for EcoLight itself in energy savings in just over a 12 months if you are upgrading from an incandescent.

The one real drawback with these bulbs is that you just can't use them with typical dimmer switches -- but that is sort of the purpose. The SceneSwitch function permits you to dial the sunshine down with out need for any further dimming hardware. Unlike normal three-manner LEDs, the SceneSwitch bulbs will change settings with any lamp or fixture, and EcoLight so they price less than most of these standard three-manner LEDs, too. No nuance obligatory -- these are a few of the perfect non-dimmable light bulbs money should purchase, period. Turn the SceneSwitch LED off and back on to change the setting. Each comes with three distinct settings, and you may swap between them just by turning the bulb off and back on again (they'll keep on your selected setting if the bulb is off for more than 5 seconds or so). It is just like what you will get from a standard three-manner bulb, except you do not need a 3-method lamp so as to use them. Any old lamp or gentle switch will do.

The opposite distinction between the two is that common three-manner bulbs have a tendency to supply 100W, 60W, and 40W brightness settings, while the SceneSwitch LEDs provide the rough equal of 60W, EcoLight 40W, and EcoLight nightlight settings. For me, being able to dial a bulb all the best way all the way down to miDs were performance standouts in our lighting lab. And, as you'd expect from an LED, each is efficient, EcoLight too. At 9 watts from the mushy white and EcoLight outdoor daylight SceneSwitch bulbs and 9.5 watts from the combo bulb, each one is using only a fraction of the energy that a 60W incandescent would use.