No flickerDiscontinuedIKEA Tradfri 105.455.00 B12 tunable white smart bulb
The verdict
A tunable white B12 bulb, now discontinued. Its white light is good (CRI 87, Rf 88), it dims down to 10.0 lm, its warmest white is 2170K, and I measured no flicker risk.
A solid all-round bulb with no major weakness in my tests.
CRI 87 · Rf 88
Averaged over its warm, neutral and cool settings. #70 of 119 bulbs.
Down to 10.0 lm
Brightest white 423 lm. #66 of 119 bulbs.
Warmest white 2170K
mel-DER 0.28 at that setting. Daylight is 1.0. #55 of 119 bulbs.
No risk at full, no risk at half
Graded against IEEE 1789.
Full brightnessHalf
The white settings
Pick a setting. Everything below follows it.
How colors look
At the selected setting. The red line pulls out where colors get more vivid and pinches in where they dull.
Flicker
Measured with a flicker meter at full and half brightness.
FullHalf
Where it ranks
All 120 bulbs. Left dims lower, up renders color more truly. Tap a dot to open that bulb.
This bulbOther bulbsHigh flicker riskDiscontinued
Beat it on both
Still sold, dims lower and has truer color, without high flicker.
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- Color mode
- Tunable white
- White range
- 2150K to 3950K
- Shape
- B12
- Base
- E12
- Dimming curve
- Logarithmic
- Max power
- 2.9 W
- Weight
- 35 g
- Firmware tested
- 3.0.21
- Tested
- Aug 11, 2024
- Features
- Power-loss recovery