I plugged a warm white dimmable USB chip style light into an old USB charger and left it in the bathroom. For reasons I don’t quite understand, my parents liked it so much they asked me for one.
The “dusk to dawn” light sensing feature is cool but I’d prefer a manual switch. It can have both so long as the switch overrides the automatic feature. There are cases when it gets dim or dark but I won’t need them on.
I love that JaredM put a quality emitter in a night light. (I have limited technical skill.) My all-time favorite low-light flashlight is the original Sofirn C-01 with 3200K Yuji. A plug-in version of that, maybe a lumen or two lower, would be ideal.
So keep the recommendations coming. I’ll be hunting around too. Thanks again!
Where you based? Lots of options on Amazon, for example this I have one in a neutral white that’s ok, quite bright though. I though it was warm white when ordering, may look into swapping out the leds but I digress… Anyway, the warm white may not be quite as bright.
Almost all LED nightlights will have that characteristic 120Hz flicker (or worse, 60Hz), unless you pay enough to get one where the mfr cares enough to filter the current to make it flicker-free. Read, $$$.
Best to just get a nightlight that takes hotwire bulbs and be done with it.
Different idea… grab a set of WW “fairy lights” and run ’em down the length of the hallway. They come in AA-powered or USB. Small USB adapter will power the usb ones and give you DC powering the LEDs, not 60Hz AC.
Relatively speaking, how much is $$$? Something I like about LED lighting is that it lasts. I’m a big fan of “one and done” so I might be open to a slightly more expensive option.
Forgive my ignorance but is a “hotwire bulb” just an incandescent? I had night lights with screw-in bulbs back in the day. Something like that with a good LED bulb could work. I’m open to recommendations.
Just get a Skilhunt H04RC from Clemence modded with the E21A 2000K. It has the lowest blue light content of any LED Ive tested. Should last many months on a charge 24hrs a day on moonlight.
for reference
that is a 3200k High CRI LED that produces about 6 lumens
I found it too bright for my bathroom light.
I do love the warm mellow color temperature:
I have no experience with plug in nightlights,
in my bathroom there is a Manker E02 w 4000k 219c, set to 0.2 lumens output, but I do not leave it on 24/7
IF I wanted a plugged in, constant on, nightlight, I would choose an incandescent, because I prefer the glowing hot wire spectrum over LEDs
Most of my LED experience is with flashlights. There, I really hate noticeable PWM. I’ve literally tried two kinds of LED light bulb. One had a soul-crushing flicker on par with the worst PWM. The other seemed okay but I moved out a few days after I installed it. Will all LED light bulbs flicker with the alternating current? If so, what’s the fix?
It has a dusk-dawn sensor AND a motion sensor. So the bathroom is dark unless someone walks in. You then have 60 seconds to sit still before it will shut back off. It is flicker-free and 2700K too. Oh, and they cost me $8 each
He’s sitting on the bowl, motionless. Motion-sensing light turns off after a while, and he’s gotta wave around to light it up again. (Sometimes you just got time to kill.)
I worked in a place where my office had one of those. I was shielded from the sensor by the monitor, and yeah, unless I’d remember to “wave” every 5min or so, it’d shut the lights off on me.