I’m… not going to buy a product with so many accounts of failure?
That actually wasn’t what I said. Insufficient thermal properties are leading to an excessive number of failures and reduced product life span for too many customers for me to have confidence in their reliability and longevity.
Please look at the link.
What you’re doing is a great idea, and I know this site is Budget Light Forum but frankly the base product is not something I have any confidence in and I think there’s ample evidence to support that compared to competing models. You should consider offering other brands bulbs that have been tested and vetted here with the coating IMHO. This brand is clearly saving on overhead big time somewhere and since I buy LED bulbs for longevity, it’s not worth the risk.
Maybe Hyperikon has improved newer models, but until I see evidence of that I will be suspicious of the specs (i.e. weight) and the numerous accounts of poor QC.
sigh. Mass/weight has nothing to do with sustained heat dissipation. Surface area is all that matters once it’s up to operating temp. It seems to me they are transferring the heat out the metal threads to the metal and ceramic socket the bulb is threaded into. That adds needed surface area, and it is totally designed to take the heat.
Personally I don’t care if you have some imagined beef with this brand. But I do mind that every time I recommend them, you pop in to say I am recommending shit. You have repeatedly claim their are loads of reviewers that say they melt, yet when asked for proof, you are like, oh, they must have manipulated ALL the reviews. Geez. You have never owned one! I have been using them for years.
I’ve never got my hands on one, so idk. The reviews look fine. But they don’t tell their CRI rating, so that’s not a good start. Maybe BurningPlayd0h can give a psychic review.
Interesting, thanks. If you have the Duv reading, that would be interesting too.
That BR30 Reavel HD+ bulb looks remarkably like the Hyperikon A19: (Duv=–0.0009)
Here’s a Hyperikon BR30, but in 4000k because that’s all I have: (Duv=–0.0016)
I measured a half a dozen GE Reveal bulbs before and they usually have a DUV of –0.0035 or lower and R9 of at least 50. They have the best tint I’ve seen but they burn out the quickest. I’ve had so many died within days or weeks.
You know, in general I can see tint pretty well, but in this case it is actually quite pleasant. I believe it is due the fact that it is the dominant light source in the room by far. Kinda like how we do not see the sun’s tint.
There’s also the fact that there seems to be less perceivable tinting when it comes to lower temps, instead of green white purple it is yellow yellow orange.
I did GE Reveal HD+ at my bedroom. Everything is great except it flickers sometimes for whatever reasons (it was in a rented apartment) so I switched back to incandescent.
I would probably take the painting outdoors on a sunny day, face it mostly toward the sun, and put a white foam-board from the dollar store behind it to make photo editing easier. Then erase everything from the photo except the painting. Bingo, perfect lighting and an Amazon-like photo.
The Reveal is still my favorite due to the low duv. Whites appear whiter. However the R9 could improve a bit and GE could really improve their reliability. From my experience, it is the most unreliable LED light bulb I’ve used.
I knew you liked low duv, but I’m surprised you describe whites as whiter, instead of rosier. Using staticx57’s data for that bulb, the Reveal HD+ is further below the BBL line than anything I have ever seen on the consumer market.
