I can also recommend the warm-by-click bulbs from the German brand Clarus. They offer “sunset dimming” with a very high CRI over the whole dimming range (2700k-1800K) and have basically a garantueed reddish tint (they use an additional red LED). They have the summer built in.
They can’t but I generally just turn off individual bulbs to suit my needs. One 800 lumen bulb in a room larger than a closet is quite dim, especially when ceiling bounced or diffused some.
Well, I have the 2700K 95 CRI 800 lumen varient on order. Still waiting for it. Looks very promising. For residential lighting, I find allot of manufacturers are out of spec. CCT with an upwards bias in color temperature. It’s great to see that isn’t the case here. The Feit bulbs are notorious for this, their 3000K are actually 3500K. GE is pretty bad about it to, around 3000K when they should be 2700K. My newer Philips 2700K A19’s are near 3100K, totally unacceptable. My newer Cree 2700K A19 also shows a 3050K color temperature. I see that blue-ification is the thing everywhere. It’s almost always out of specification CCT with a “cool” bias. There was always this thing that felt off with most LED A19 bulbs.
My thoughts exactly, TK. It’s the closest thing to a 219B in a lightbulb form that I’ve seen.
Maukka, did you think about testing the 2400K bulb from Waveform? This opens up so many possibilities like their tape lights…
On another note, I got the CCT readings from some 2700K TCP bulbs in the vanity mirror in my bathroom, and they’re 3100K! Even my 3000K SST-20s are a warmer 3040K. Talk about out of spec.! There were some other people saying don’t mind the out of specification CCT, you’ll like it… eventually. No thanks to that. If I wanted 3000K, 3500K, and so on I would’ve bought it in the first place. Sloppy manufacturing processes should not be justified.
These will fit any lamp with an E27 socket. Their low power means that there probably isn’t a light fixture that couldn’t handle them. I use one of these Tertial workbench lights.
… oh, wait. There it is. It took me a moment, but I found it. The beam shot is just under “Measurements”, to the right of the table. It’s really easy to miss if you don’t look very closely, so I highlighted it:
Got my 2700K Waveform A19 bulb, and I am very pleased. My example is closer to 2800K, but a much better match for incandescent then my Philips A19 LED. Will probably be replacing the CFLs in my place with them.
I also got the 2400K filament light from them, but it exhibits some odd behavior. It flickers on startup, but then it seems to smooth out a perciptable amount once running for about half a minute. Do you guys have any idea what this could be?
Bit of an update with my 2400K Waveform A19. I just screwed in a new duplicate lamp, and it appears that after about a year and half this light now has some serious lumen depreciation. I want to say, generously, that this lamp probably has around 3000 hours on it. The rated L70, 70% of initial output end of life, is officially rated for 25,000 hours. It looks like I have a warranty to claim.
I just measured two of my 2400K A19’s. I used my Extech lux-meter held vertically facing the lamps at 12 inches away. The depreciated lamp measured around 230 lux while the newer light measured 560 lux. The drop in output is noticeable.