Some Googling indicates that a 100-watt incandescent puts out roughly 1500 lumens, in case that helps you determine how that would feel in a 10x10’ room.
The amount of light is great for this application. This laundry room is between the main hall and the attached garage. It’s the primary entrance for the homeowners, so a bright room is a good transition for eyes adjusting from outside to inside light levels.
Surprisingly, these fixtures are dimmable, and claim to work with ‘most household dimmers.’ I haven’t tested that claim though.
Speaking of dimmers, I’ve had mixed results using traditional incandescent dimmers with LED bulbs and fixtures. They either won’t work at all, or the dimmable range is non-linear and nearly all of the adjustment is at one end of the dimmer’s travel.
I was lucky to find twin-packs of ‘digital’ Feit dimmers for a deal at Costco last year. They provide a true 0-100% dimmable range with several different dimmable LED bulbs I’ve tried. They’re even programmable to adjust the bottom of the range if you won’t use much of the lower outputs. I think mine are this model, which seem to get less-than-stellar reviews on Amazon. I haven’t had any trouble with mine.
I bought those exact lights to use in my finished basement where I needed an almost flush mount due to low ceiling. I am very happy with them and their performance. I added a remote relay between mains power and light fixture and have a switch that I can mount any where in the room. Best of luck and a great bargain if you ask me.
Okay, DCH is alive. Lol. He emailed me back, he’s just busy with real life and drowning in good deals. He wanted me to assure y’all that he is not doing time for penny deals lol!
So yeah, I ended up getting one. My self-restraint is very weak.
This is actually a pretty nice light. Somewhat large, but the magnets are strong enough to hang onto the fridge. The swiveling panels are useful. You can have both panels up, or only one panel up, so in effect you have 4 different light output levels available. Construction feels adequate for the price (not great), but sturdy enough.
With both panels up, parasitic drain is 0.17mA on alkalines and 0.12mA on NiMH. However, if you fold the panels, parasitic drain drops to 0.
On high, with alkalines, voltage sag is massive and drops like flies. If the starting light output truly is 500 lumen, it surely won’t last long at that level - it’ll start dropping right away, but I haven’t done a light output runtime test to see how bad it is.
Here are some rough initial current numbers I got, both panels up:
Alkaline
NiMH
High
2A at 4V
2.3A at 4.35V
Low
0.75A at 5V
0.85A at 4.9V
All in all, I like it, but something tells me that if you need it as a work light, you’d better work fast.
My guess is it’s by design since it acts as an on/off switch for each panel. When the light is on (main power switch on), folding the panel will turn that panel off. This must be a physical switch that acts similarly to unscrewing the tail cap on a flashlight, which is why you see parasitic drain disappear.