ThisIsTheWay Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 Can anyone suggest an E12 candelabra LED 40w equivalent blub that works well with Insteon dimmers? I've bought 3 different models off amazon, all flicker when dimmed (even the ones that claim they would not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techman Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 (edited) I use Feit bulbs and have no flicker. Which brands have you tried? How many bulbs do you have on one dimmer? Edited October 28, 2022 by Techman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jec6613 Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 If you can find them still, Philips Warm Glow work very well. Most Amazon knock-off brands do pretty poorly though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisIsTheWay Posted October 28, 2022 Author Share Posted October 28, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, jec6613 said: If you can find them still, Philips Warm Glow work very well. Most Amazon knock-off brands do pretty poorly though. I will grab some of these Phillips Warm Glow. Have had luck with their other offerings in the past. A little hard to track down these days. I tried these three with no luck: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08T7H2FKN https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0792BKRM https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07V42LQG1 Worst worst case ill just use incandescent Edited October 28, 2022 by uffy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBill Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 Phillips warm glow is my choice as well. Did they do something to that product line? is it no longer available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larryllix Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 (edited) I find all brands of bulbs have good and bad. I always had good luck with Philips bulbs, years back, and bought dozens for my new home, but they were always more expensive. I had really crap bulbs with their first run of Hue bulbs, and terrible luck with two batches of Warm Glow bulbs and now Philips is being faded out from the shelves in Home Depot Canada. The Warm and Glow ones flickered just above, and wouldn't produce any light under about 40% on an Insteon SwitchLinc. Dimmer. I have always had better luck with dimmable bulbs but they are getting very hard to get. All the bulks buy boxes of bulbs, regardless of brand are Non-Dimmable, around here now. I did see GE make a debut in a Lowes Canada store this morning. This happened to me with the Cree bulbs also. They were the best in the beginning. Now I have none left and HD Canada took them off the shelves. Feit bulbs were excellent for a time but they have disappeared from out local stores now also. Best to try a package and don't make any marks on the base. HD would return mine if they were never used and they looked at the base for abrasions, Edited October 28, 2022 by larryllix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumbershoot Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 4 hours ago, uffy said: I will grab some of these Phillips Warm Glow. I think Philips folded the Warm Glow bulbs into the "Eye Comfort" series. These have the Warm Glow feature: https://www.usa.lighting.philips.com/consumer/p/led-candle---lustre--dimmable-/046677566654 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apostolakisl Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 (edited) Ditto on the Phillips. I installed 100 of these in my church running on Insteon switches and am very happy with them. The color is good and when you dim them they turn more orange, like an incandescent. They are now just past their one year anniversary with no failures, running about 20 hours per week. These are more like 60w eq. It cost about $600, but by my math, we have already saved over $600, so it is all bonus now. And that is just based on decreased electricity for the bulbs, not the AC savings from 1/10 the heat load. And they do not flicker at all. However, on one switch I also had a cheap closet LED and there was some weird interaction that caused them to blink. I had to remove that closet light. I did not test these with just one bulb on the switch, I think the least number of bulbs on any one switch is maybe 6. https://www.bulbsdepot.com/bd39-550250.html EDIT: I noticed they have two pictures on the website of different looking bulbs. My bulbs all look like the second picture. The metal base does poke out of the socket and you can see it. This is I assume necessary as a heat sink. Edited October 29, 2022 by apostolakisl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upstatemike Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 Interesting that all of the links show bulbs with the filiment style LEDs. My Philips E12 bulbs have a translucent cylinder inside that contains the LED. They dim fine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisIsTheWay Posted November 23, 2022 Author Share Posted November 23, 2022 I went ahead and got the Phillips bulbs. Happy I did. Thank you for the advice. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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