Help me find a Nice, Warm, Night Light

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.

I bought a 2 pack of Meridian hallway night lights more than 4 years ago and they're still going well.

When I open the blinds in the morning they turn off.

The LED is 0.5W SMD 2835 with a luminous flux of 3.0

I like these a lot, and they’’ve been quite popular with friends and family.

4xAA, and they last tolerably long with Eneloops.

Tucked under the bed, they light up the floor nicely in a dark bedroom.

Set on or under a counter, they light the bathroom quite usably.

https://www.mrbeams.com/mr-beams-amber-stand-anywhere-light-mb750a

There are also 110v nightlights commonly available at Ace Hardware stores that work fine.

And ’oogled: 110v amber night at DuckDuckGo. and page through viewing images, lots out there


2 PACK 0.5W Plug In LED Night Light with Dusk to Dawn Sensor Yellow/Amber/Warm White – YumDistrict. (I know nothing about this, just noting as typical)

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.

I like that LED too.

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

https://www.amazon.com/LimeLite-Night-Light/dp/B004HE37DM

we have used these for over 20 years.
green (lime) and dim.

Unno, never saw it done in cheap LED bulbs. Maybe that Bedtime Bulb in another thread…

Yeh.

And that’s back to the same problem. LED bulbs are like LED Christmas lights, ie, no filtering, just nasty pulsed 120Hz (or worse, 60Hz) lighting.

Fwiw, I got (won) a set of these Amazon.com which I quite like.

But they’re also pulsed AC vs filtered DC.

You could spend more on a stinky little 10µF filtering cap than for a half-dozen LEDs.

I used to have half a dozen of those. Eventually they all got spotty and faded and became useless. I dunno why.

Hang on. I need another remedial moment.

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?

Unless a LED bulb is advertised as being “flicker-free”, assume it’s got a nasty 120Hz flicker of about a 5% or less duty-cycle.

No fix. Might not run on DC, can’t really crack one open to add diodes/caps/etc.

I did an extensive search in 2015 and settled on this gem:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002VF9POY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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 :smiley:

5 years old and still loved :smiley:

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1fvywm/this_pretty_much_sums_up_my_relationship_with_the/

Maybe I’ll get the joke when I am older. Right now I look at it and wonder why he’s waiting for something to happen :stuck_out_tongue:

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.

But how could a poop possibly take longer than 20 seconds? :stuck_out_tongue:

Reading, crossword puzzles, etc. By the time you’re finished, it’s time for round 2. :laughing:

I guess bathrooms bore the crap out of me in record time :laughing:

Young people…