EcoLight: Expert Advice on Choosing LEDs

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Residing in a home filled with dimmer switches can make the lighting aisle appear more intimidating than it should be. Certain, loads of at the moment's LEDs are designed with dimmability in thoughts, however that doesn't guarantee satisfactory efficiency. We have heard plenty of complaints from readers, and likewise experienced first hand the annoyance of spending cash on upgraded lighting, solely to discover that these fancy new EcoLight solar bulbs can buzz, flicker, and dim erratically. Within the interest of constructing your subsequent journey to the lighting aisle rather less exasperating, we put right now's LEDs to the test. There are lots of things that may cause a gentle bulb to buzz or flicker when it dims, together with issues past the bulb's control like voltage irregularities, overloaded circuits, and outdoors interference. The most typical subject, though, lies with the dimmer itself, and that is the place we decided to begin. Trendy dimmers (the sorts you'll discover on the shelf at Lowe's or Home Depot) won't actually raise and decrease the voltage for easy dimming, however will as a substitute flash the facility up and down at unnoticeably high speeds to create the illusion of dimming.