Gadgetory

if you've been to the lighting aisle of your local hardware store recently you've probably noticed that light bulbs have changed and appearance somewhat today's new LEDs have new builds and heat sinks and they don't look exactly like the bulbs you probably grew up with the incandescent of years past but this bulb here which looks just like one of those incandescent is actually an LED this is the saffron LED 40 watt replacement as you can see it sits in that same classic glass curved bulb it looks just like an incandescent and is designed especially for people who don't like the way LEDs look these days if that includes you you're probably pretty happy with the way this bulb looks sitting beside me looks just like an incandescent both on and off in terms of performance this bulb uses just 6 watts to put out about 375 lumens so less than the state is 400 and less than the 450 lumens that you probably want from a 40 watt replacement bulb so disappointing in the brightness it's also got a color rendering score of 78 which is right below that benchmark point of 80 that you really want an LED to hit additionally this is a non dimmable bulbs so you can't use it on a dimmer switch without some pretty intense flickering you want a cheap strobe light it'll do the job just fine but as a dimmable light bulb this is not an option you want to consider at $12 it's more expensive than the options you'll get from cree phillips and oz room and it's not as strong an option as those so that reason the pretty tough bulb for me to recommend unless you are absolutely in love with the way it looks as incandescent look-alikes go it is the closest we've seen so far so I've got to give it credit for that thanks for watching and check out the rest of my life old smart home and appliance reviews at cnet com / appliances for seen that I'm right Chris you