Philips LED B22 Bayonet Cap Warm Bulb, Frosted, 8 W (60 W) - White Light

They buzz and flicker when on a dimmer switch, even though it says on the advert:Dimmable.Create the right atmosphere with dimmable LED lighting.

Firstly can I please say that I am VERY sceptical of LED bulbs. Prior to buying this product, the only LED bulbs I had come across were some truly terrible bulbs my landlord installed in an old house I lived in a few years ago. Those bulbs delivered ultra harsh blue light and I hated them. Ever since I have never strayed from incandescent . The incandescent lamp blew after a couple of years use in my anglepoise desk lamp, but I instead bought this bulb as 60w incandescents are energy inefficient and old, and I was curious as to whether a LED bulb would be a suitable replacement.I have to say that I am really very surprised.Aesthetics:To me, the bulb resembles a traditional bulb... ish. The solid plastic base is still too big in my opinion and has Philips emblazoned on it which is aesthetically not nice in a bulb. Certainly much more obvious than the GE mark on a old style lamp. The actual "bulb" part is made out of plastic, and it looks it I'm afraid. Not as appealing to my eyes as glass. Its notably more weighty than an an old style bulb, but I wouldn't call it heavy.Light output:Here is where I was surprised. This bulb look exactly like an incandescent bulb and I mean it. It is exactly the same colour. This bulb is also much, much brighter than my original 60w bulb. It is 75w equivalent, and I'd believe them.The colour reproducibility is great. It emits this soft, warm, easy on the eye glow, which I still find absolutely incredible seeing that this is an LED not an incandescent. You really wouldn't know the difference.To my eye this light produces no flicker, however on my phone camera it flickers very slightly.Conclusion:If this bulb will be on show somehow, it does look noticeably different to an incandescent bulb, and the Philips logo is a bit big. However the light output is excellent and would easily replace an incandescent with no noticeable effects.

Nice and bright - though I'd still potentially like even brighter :^)One niggle though and what lost it a star.... when hanging down from the ceiling, it doesn't put much light upwards, which negates a little of the effect of the extra brightness, as the ceiling isn't as bright as it could be. It gives the room a slightly dingy feel, even though it's bright downwards.In fact, I was glad I bought 2 ... I put the first in the ceiling fitting as planned... but upon seeing how nice and bright it was down, but how dreary the ceiling looked, and also how dark my desk lamp now looked alongside it, I immediately swapped out the bulb in the desk lamp for the second of these bulbs.Now, with both on together, that puts a nice amount of light up towards the ceiling, albeit only on one side of the room, but it does help.The colour is nice.A lot better colour than the cold white LED that I had in the ceiling before. The cold white may give more light for the same power, but I think that was a mistake - a bit too clinical for relaxing in the evening before heading off to bed - and glad I've replaced it with this bulb.Summary :Nice and bright, but the next one I buy, I'll be first looking to see if there's a version that gives the same (or more) light output, but that also puts more light on the ceiling as well. Given a choice between this 1520lumens with the darkish ceiling, and a 930lumens with a wider beam that puts more upwards, I'd probably still choose this 1520 lumens ... but if there's a 1520 (or better) that also lights the ceiling a little more, I'd go for that.

I've now bought quite a few of these over the course of the last year gradually kitting out my flat. Originally it was for the purpose of replacing old CFL bulbs that were not very bright and gave inconsistent light in the same room. But now I've taken to just replacing bulbs when I feel it's time to refresh a room! I've become a big LED convert (started from seeing a friends Hue set up - though that's too pricey for me - and then replacing pricey halogen spotlights with the Philips LED equivalents) and feel the lower energy use, instant on, and consistent colouring across lights is brilliant.I reckon if you're here, you're already seriously considering LED lights, so more important is why these ones? Well, I've bought a cheap pair in the past, but they became annoying; they both burnt out quickly and although they were quickly replaced, I found the replacements were slightly different in brightness. I really feel like you get a higher quality from Philips (and not for much more money) and so have been going for their bulbs when I could (the exception being my most recent GU10 bulb purchase, which came from elsewhere based on a Which? test review). These bulbs are very highly rated everywhere, and for good reason!I bought the 11W ones for my living room to test them out - if they weren't bright enough I was going to move them to my bedroom. However, I think that for my set up they're perfect; any more power and they'd be too bright, I think. Any less and the room would be as dim as it was with the more energy hungry (13 and 18W - though actually the 18W ones were okay) CFLs I had.Highly recommended!The only thing I can't fathom is why the pack of 4 is more expensive than buying 4 individual ones...!

Good product just not as bright as I thought