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This high-concept LED gets high marks

2015-01-29
hey I'm seeing that's right Kristin I'm here with the cloud led a br30 floodlight from green creative and this is a new bulb that has a very distinctive design if you look it floats the diodes on this disk up above the base of the bulb so you can see right through it now what that does is that makes it a lot lighter than the average PR 30 and cuts down on the materials needed to produce it and also helps with heat management so this bulb separates the diodes from the base of the bulb and the heat doesn't affect things quite as much now take a look at this graph from our testing lab that blue line there is the cloud led the red line is the Philips slim style and you turn an LED on it's going to lose a little bit of brightness as it gets hot and then flatline once the heat management system of the bulb kicks in so you see here both of the bulbs kind of hit that steady state at about 15 minutes in but the cloud LED hits a much higher steady state it stays above ninety percent that's very very well the filled slim style was our previous pick as the best VR 34 heat management but the cloud led beats it so that's a fantastic result the cloud LED comes in a variety of color temperatures ranging from 2400 k up to 4000 case if you like that daylight kind of white light you have that option which is nice whatever color temperature you go with you're going to get a very efficient bulb all four of the varieties are 8 watt bulbs and that's more efficient than any other br30 that we've tested each one we tested also scored above it stayed to lumen output so brighter than they say on the box a very good result very bright bulb best of all the bulb retails for thirteen dollars which is very good for a br 30 LED and better than you'll pay for manufacturers like Cree Phillips and GE I still like the GE revealed BR 30 LED as my editor's choice it's got slightly better performance on dimmers and a much better color rendering score so it'll make colors pop in your home a little more but still as a value pic i like the cloud led a lot and think it's one you should consider thanks for watching check out the rest of our light bulb reviews and smart home reviews at cnet com for cnet appliances I'm right Chris you
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