Earthmate EP085250 8-Watt, Dimmable BR30 2700K Bulb, 6 Pack
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Earthmate EP085250 8-Watt, Dimmable BR30 2700K Bulb, 6 Pack
Customer Review: Poor performance and reliability
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased the 6 pack of these Earthmate dimmable bulbs from Amazon 4 months ago. Since then I've had two of the six go bad within 4 months. Other CFL bulbs in my house have been installed for three years without any issues. The other issue I have with these bulbs is they take a full minute to reach full brightness and full brightness is about a third of what a regular bulb is.
At first I thought these bulbs were a neat idea with the whole environmentally green message, but choose a bulb based on it's performance, not just the packaging. Having to recycle bulbs prematurely has to be worse.
Customer Review: Nice light, but have had 8 stop working within 7 months.
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought about 20 or 30 of these bulbs to replace all the high wattage flood lights in the recessed ceiling cans all around my house. They worked amazingly (mostly). A few came and were already broke, amazon were great and sent me out a whole box to replace the one or 2 broken ones. In the past 6 months, 6-8 more have just stopped working, or started flickering. I wish they didn't, and they worked great but they have been problems.
Amazon have now sent me 2 boxes to replace the previous ones, i am now about to complain about another.
I hope you have better luck with them than me.
Customer Review: Worked perfectly
Summary: 5 Stars
I had purchased bulbs from Bulborama but they had a 20 second delay before full illumination and dimmed to 50% at best. The told me I needed another switch but that the delay was still going to occur.
I returned those and bought a pack of these from Amazon. All six of the bulbs worked out-of-the-box -- instant on and fully dimmable down to 10%. I'm using them in a theater room, so I'm very happy.
I'll update if there are any problems with early burn out. For now, I'm going to order two more packs to finish up the house and have a couple of spares.
Customer Review: Saving money made easy
Summary: 4 Stars
Good bulbs and one of the easiest way to save money. Got these to replace the 50W dimmable bulbs I had in the living room.
My tracklighting uses 4 bulbs. Now I am using less wattage (32W) for all 4 than I did for 1 50W bulb. Crazy.
I expected the instant-on to be at least 85-90% of the brightness, but, sadly, that is not the case.
They start off at about 30-40% and then gets brighter, taking upto 1 min to get to full brightness.
Still sticking with them as I'm using far less electricity. Others might not feel that way.
Customer Review: It burned out within 3 months
Summary: 1 Stars
I'd love to give this product a good review, but one of the bulbs stopped working within 3 months. We didn't use them for anything unusual, just lighting the family room. We dimmed them a couple of times, but mostly just had them on or off. For something this expensive, I expected them to last years under normal use, not months. A regular spotlight bulb would have worked fine, and saved me a lot of money. (Most of my other lights in the house are compact flourescent, and they seem to work fine, so I blame this specific product)