TORCHSTAR 12-Pack Essential Series 4 Inch Ultra-Thin LED Recessed Lighting with J-Box, 4000K Cool White, 10W Dimmable 700lm Brightness LED Downlight, ETL & Energy Star Listed

I really do like the design of these lights; however, I'm concerned about electrical safety. After about a month of good service, 2 of the 11 lights I installed in my kitchen ceiling stopped working, so I removed and inspected them. The lights worked fine but both J-boxes smelled burnt so I disassembled them. Each PCB was badly burned in the same spot. Amazon put me in contact with Torchstar in CA and they promptly sent replacement J-boxes which I installed.... Working fine. I asked Torchstar tech support to call me to discuss electrical safety but no response after a week. I will certainly keep a close eye on these and only power them up when I'm in the kitchen. If this happens again I will definitely report this to UL & CSA. I really do like these lights and hope this is just an anomaly.Update 2/8/2020.... The replacement J-Boxes and all the original equipment have been working perfectly since the replacement so I'm about to purchase another set for my office, and then my garage. The defective boxes must have been an anomaly.

I don't leave reviews for a lot of items I buy but I've been so pleased with these lights that I felt the need to. I have installed about 30 of these throughout my house (living room, bedrooms, office, garage, kitchen, hallway) and they are awesome. They are a massive upgrade from the existing fixtures I had, especially when considering the cost and time to install. They are extremely bright so make sure you install with a dimmer to get the desired lighting (I used the Lutron DVWCL-153PH-WH, White). For example, I installed 8 in my living room which has 8' ceilings and is 14'x18'. I spaced each light about 4.5' apart and I dim them down to about 75% for everyday use. In my opinion 3000k is the only color suitable for indoors, 2700k is too yellow and 4000k+ is too white (best for the garage). Whatever suits your taste, just make sure you buy all the same color throughout the house for a clean, uniform look.The specs state you only need a 6.02" ceiling opening. When I measured one of the backs before I made my first cut, it was more like 6.25". I've cut all my holes to 6.25" and these lights still have a snug fit with no gaps. I love that they are rated for contact with insulation. I had a few existing traditional canned lights in the kitchen that required a thermal barrier which I always ran into when moving around the attic, forcing me to fish out the blow-in insulation that inevitably found it's way into contact with the fixture.I would buy these again and would recommend them to anybody looking for a quality light that is reasonably priced and easy to install. I'll upload pictures in the next few days.

I originally thought I'd get the 5000k because I like white things, but I was wrong. 5000k was too blue. After getting the 4000k, though I was super happy. The lamp is an incandescent for comparison. When I want a homey mood I turn off the recessed lights, but when I want to work the recessed lights are perfect.First, these are really easy to install. It's totally do-able to chain these along, with the romex going in one knockout, romex going out the other knockout, and connected to the light with the supplied wire nuts. It's a bit of a tight fit in the box, but it works. After it's wired in and the box is tucked away, it was easy to use the supplied template to cut a hole in the drywall, though I'd suggest cutting on the outside of the line instead of inside. It was a pretty tight fit when I did it. With the hole cut, you find the box (hopefully you measured everything right and marked the right spots when you did all your drywall and paint), and plug the light into the connector, then fold the springs back and slide it up into the hole. The springs are super strong and there's no issue with it holding the light tightly against the wall (I used 5/8" drywall).The string of lights works great with my Leviton Decora Smart Wi-Fi 600W Dimmer. For the most part I usually keep the brightness around 30%. All the way to 100% is pretty intense, though I may have gone a little too dense (roughly 6' spacing between all the lights).I was a little worried that there's be some whine or buzz from a transformer or capacitor doing voltage switching, but these things are perfectly silent.Inspection was a breeze. For rough-in I routed and stapled all the wire with uncut loops where the lights would be, and wired up a practice box with spare wire to show the inspector. He was interested in these ultra-thin lights because he hadn't seen them before, but was satisfied. Then for final inspection he never looked at the final wiring and only made sure the dimmer worked correctly.

Wife and I wanted to modernize our family room by replacing 4 bronze trimmed can lights with LED. Wow, what a difference! No need to remove the cans, simply connect the wires and slide-in the LED lights and done. We ordered the 12 pack to install the remaining 8 in our kitchen. this was more effort due to the need for drywall holes and run BX wire. We eventually realized the best look for our kitchen was to also replace existing fixtures (in center of kitchen and above kitchenette table) with the same LED units. Not only does it look great, but the kitchen looks bigger without the hanging fixtures. WARNING: these are very bright lights, so using multiple in a kitchen requires a dimmer to tone it down for most activities. We bought a great compatible dimmer 3 pack on Amazon: Lutron DVCL-153P-WH. I plan to order another 2-pack of the lights to keep as spares. While I don't expect the LED to fail, some of the DC power supply boxes may fail over time. This is one reason we chose these units: separate fixture and power supplies!