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hey I'm seen that's right wrist and this is a review of the Cree br30 led now br30 means bulging reflector and that just means that the bulb bounces the light out in one direction instead of the on the directional light you might get from a standard light bulb and this one does a very good job in terms of efficiency it uses 9.5 wats to put out a total lumen output of 650 lumens that's good for 68 lumens per watt very decent for an LED floodlight and if you're upgrading from an incandescent or halogen like this one you're going to be happy with the power savings like other br30 LEDs the Cree light promises to last for 25,000 hours or over 20 years at an average of three hours per day so it's going to save you money for a long time it puts out light at a nice yellowy 2,700 k it looks good on paper it's a perfectly fine bulb but I still don't recommend it and here's why the bulb cost twenty dollars and that was a good price a year ago when LEDs hadn't come down yet but they have and there's more competitors out there and there are pretty good competitors out there like the GE revealed BR 30 LED which just won our editors choice that bulb has the same general specs as the Cree light a slight uptick in the wattage to make for better color quality but still very efficient it also costs two dollars less so you can get that bowl but the same ten year warranty the same overall quality for less I think that's a much better deal than the Cree bulb if they cost the same I'd probably still prefer the GE reveal so the fact that it costs less is just the icing on the cake in addition to that price point the cree LED has some other problems with it that i'm not huge fan of the first of which is the fact that it does flickr a bit on dimmer switches your performance may vary there a lot of dimmer switches out there but on every switch we tried it with here in our lab we found that a flickered quite a bit now Cree has been pretty aggressive about their pricing getting to the bottom of that price range right away to try and get out in front of the competition with be our 30s it feels that they fall in a bit behind other bulbs that Korea's put out have seen price cuts in the year since they've been out they've kind of adjusted to make sure that they're still very competitive this one has not it's the same price point as when it was first introduced back in July of 2013 it might get a price cut in the near future you don't know but even if it did I don't know that I'd recommend it because the market has already come down just take a look at this Phillips BR 30 slim style this is a $13 bulb does a perfectly good job has some of the same problems with Korea with flickering but all in all pretty comparable I don't think he's going to come down to $13 they'd have to in order to compete with this one in the end cree bulbs are very good overall and in most categories they tend to leave the way but be our 30s they are behind the curve until they play catch-up I say skip it and go with something else for seeing that I'm right Chris