I recently came across these bulbs listed below. Supposedly they are 95+ CRI typically 98.
I’m also told by their sales rep that there is no flicker.
Would anyone be willing to test and review these bulbs? I think there would be a lot of community interest given that they are so cheap if they are perform as advertised.
Sure. Send me a 4 pack, 3000k version, and I’ll test it.
Normally I would not buy a bulb like this. It doesn’t have the California certs and it doesn’t say it is approved for enclosed fixtures.
The distributor should be willing to provide a test report regarding light quality and flicker, if asked.
I’d recommend buying some Great Value brand bulbs from Walmart and swap the emitters. All of them that I have opened up have contained 9V 2835 emitters. Bridgelux Thrive 1W 2835 emitters make perfect replacements, and in my testing have been as good and even better than Seoul SunLike 3030 emitters. They can be purchased from Digikey for <$9 for 100.
TM-30 report for a bulb I swapped in a mix of 5700K/3500K:
Ah yes, the good old emitter swap on retrofit light bulbs, I see this new modding category coming 
Nice light quality over there. With Rg 102 colors could be slightly oversaturated, but this should be fine.
I wish I could understand all that beautiful colored graphical jargon.
Any tips for how to learn to interpret that stuff.
Because visually I know what I want a blend of beautiful Rosy pink and slight blue mixed with white in the middle that’s the best I can do to subscribe but to me it’s like a diamond.
What system device generates those reports?
Gah wow tell me more
Few if any are okay for enclosed fixtures, and this puppy eats 9W for 800 lemons vs the usual 7W or so.
I got 2 “60W” 7W bulbs in a bewb fixture that takes 3 bulbs, but I never use that light for more than, say, a half-hour at a time, usually 5-10min tops.
A lot of cheap lights are pushed pretty hard, too, vs using more LEDs to generate a certain amount of light, so cooking them is especially hard on the emitters. Probably a coin-toss what blows first, an emitter or any filtering cap.
Just throwing it out here for s&g…
I got a pack of these
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMZV7G6Z/
that’re rated 95+ cri, and right now they’re going for 25bux for a 12pak, so like 2bux/bulb.
They look pretty good to me. Never took a cri-ometer to 'em, but can verify zero flicker via The Fan Method and The Phone method.
Plus, being glass-envelope filament bulbs, they look hella nice vs the usual snowcone blubs.
Just wondering if anyone can actually tell the difference between 95cri and 99cri. Like, actually looking at something vs on a meter.
To be honest, I don’t understand it all either.
I’ve just done a lot of reading here, and searching google. I still have much to learn though
I use a Hopoocolor HPCS-310 spectrometer, and import the raw spectral data in ColorCalculator for the TM-30 report. I also have a ColorMunki Photo, but it’s lower resolution and doesn’t appear to be as accurate.
The LED bulbs I buy for home interior lighting are JA8 compliant and rated for enclosed fixtures.
Edit: I just wrote a little guide about this subject:
Ooh, noice!
But how much does each bulb go for?
I was debating just replacing the fixture for one of those fixed LED ones, but nah. One of those goes wonky, and you gotta replace the whole fixture vs just swapping a bulb.
Around $3 each, but they should actually last a long time and have 3 or 5 year warranties.
Oh, that’s not bad at all…
Wow that’s awesome!
What was your mix ?
2 5700K, 1 3500k?
Also do you have a link to the product page for each?
Most of the bulbs have 14 emitters, I did 7 of each CCT. I’ve also done some 5000K/4000K mix. I need to order some more 3000K to try a mix with 5700K. Ideally I’d like to get a CCT ~4300K and slightly below bbl.
Hi !
I’m very interested in these Bridgelux LEDs… could you share part#'s? I opened a topic for my new project
6500K - BXEN-65S-13H-9C-00-0-0
5700K - BXEN-57S-13H-9C-00-0-0
5000K - BXEN-50S-13H-9C-00-0-0
4000K - BXEN-40S-13H-9C-00-0-0
3500K - BXEN-35S-13H-9C-00-0-0
3000K - BXEN-30S-13H-9C-00-0-0
2700K - BXEN-27S-13H-9C-00-0-0
Digikey doesn’t have the 6500K or 2700K, but they have all the other CCTs in stock.
TME.com also had stocked them along with the 3V .5W, but they’re in Europe so I haven’t ordered from them.
Thanks, this is looking good!
Any comments on the tint?
TME is more convenient for me since I’m French 
I’ll get some 9V 3000K LEDs to upgrade lightbulbs… but for my other light project which is a long linear light, I’d rather use more lower power LEDs to avoid bright spots. I think I’m going to use the 0.2W LEDs for 2700K, and the 0.5W ones for 4-5000K…
I’ve only tried the 9V 5700, 5000, 4000 and 3500K. The 5700K and 5000K don’t the greatest tint. The 4000K is just above bbl, and the 3500K is pretty much right on.
