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.
2200K. Equivalent to the old 7 watt incandescent night lights in brightness and color temperature. For a nightlight, it’s very bright. No idea which emitter they’re using.
I’m interested in any suggestions for a battery powered night light or <1 lumen as we don’t have power plugs in the right places. I used to use a Nitecore NU30 headlamp which lasted about 3 weeks on <1 lumen (about double the runtime specification), but the battery died after 3 years.
Not sure if anyone wanted one of these but
I had one of these as a gift and it comes in a very nice warm 3000k light. Rechargeable and has auto turn off for 3-5 minutes of light on. Found many cheaper alternatives if you hunt in the right spots in amazon.
It uses a 14mm star in my unit which I could always swap to something nicer but the stock LED is good enough for me
Just hunt for Faucet Tap Drippy Night Light Voice Activated
Usually the voice activated are usb rechargeable and the non voice activated are 3x AAA battery types.
Easy — Mr. Beams Step lights. I’ve bought quite a few of them, most given as gifts. I have a healthy stash (~20 or so) myself. I’m always on the road for work, so these often get set up in hotel rooms, usually leaving a couple on the corners of furniture and a few in the bathroom.
MB500-WHT = 4000K neutral white (looks more like 3500K to my eyes) (Amazon link)
MB500A-WHT = 600nm (~1800K) amber. (Amazon link)
The -WHT refers to the white case. Not sure if they ever made other colors.
They run on 2x AAAs, and are very happy with Eneloops. I recommend rechargeables in them as I’ve had issues with alkalines leaking in them. Good for 6-12 months depending on how dark it is. Not much bigger than the 2 AAAs themselves.
I use rechareables in them to avoid that, as I’ve noticed LED lights mostly all stay bright even as the alkalines start leaking, unlike the old incandescent bulbs that went dim orange usually before or just as the alkalines start to leak.
I do wish MrBeams would redesign their lights to assume five 1.2v NiMH cells rather than four 1.5v alkalines.
I’ve been wondering about wiring in and taping on an extra battery holder.
That’s because I have so many of them around the house that every few weeks I’ve got to put in freshly recharged batteries on one of them.
I have quite a few Mr Beams lights and am using rechargeables without a problem. For the D-cell & C-cell lights, I do use alkalines, but haven’t had those leak on me yet. The one D-cell ceiling light went 2 years on the same set of batteries. I only changed that one because it was starting to get dim.