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am seeing that's right Chris today we've got a review of the Philips Slim style LED and don't be fooled this is not a pint sized ping-pong paddle this is a light bulb it's got a unique design that spreads the diodes out along the perimeter of this kind of horseshoe shaped body and that makes for better heat dispersion and means that the bulb doesn't have to rely on heavy aluminum heat sinks because of that this is a very light weight LED it weighs in at just two point two ounces and that's less than half of what you'll see from a lot of other LEDs including Philips is own standard 60 watt equivalent LED the slim style puts out 800 lumens of light from a power draw of 10.5 watts and that's very good that gives it an efficiency of about 76 lumens per watt not quite as good as what you get from the cree LED but still very nice another thing I like about it is that it does indeed seem to do well with heat we tested over time to see how heat affects the power output of these bulbs all of them are going to drop off a little bit in the first 30 minutes after you turn them on as the heat cranks up its gonna effect that power output slightly not that noticeable it doesn't make it that much dimmer but it still happens with the Philips Slim style though it happens a lot less if you look at this graph the purple line on top there that's the Philips Slim style you can see the power and the brightness dropping off a couple percentage points after you turn it on all the bulbs do that but it flatlines right about 93 percent and that's higher than any other bulb we tested that means that the heat is affecting it a lot less now the translation for practical purposes is that if you want to use this bulb in a enclosed fixture you're probably going to have good results compared with what you might get from other bulbs where that heat buildup inside the enclosed fixture would affect performance over time maybe shorten the lifespan a bit you won't want to use it with a dimmer switch though there are better bulbs for that purpose that won't buzz or flicker quite as much as the slim style will you can pick up the Philips some style 60 watt equivalent for about nine dollars and at that price it's a pretty good deal so if you like this design or don't mind this design maybe I say check it out we've seen that I'm right Chris you