Low flickerDiscontinuedIKEA Tradfri 905.474.30 MR16 tunable white smart bulb
The verdict
A tunable white MR16 bulb, now discontinued. Its white light is excellent (CRI 94, Rf 91), it dims down to 6.9 lm, its warmest white is 2112K, and flicker risk is low.
A solid all-round bulb with no major weakness in my tests.
CRI 94 · Rf 91
Averaged over its warm, neutral and cool settings. #1 of 119 bulbs.
Down to 6.9 lm
Brightest white 390 lm. #51 of 119 bulbs.
Warmest white 2112K
mel-DER 0.27 at that setting. Daylight is 1.0. #44 of 119 bulbs.
No risk at full, low 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
No bulb I have tested dims lower and renders color more truly. This one is on the frontier.
Similar bulbs
Still sold, same GU10 base.
Setup and specs
- Color mode
- Tunable white
- White range
- 2100K to 4150K
- Shape
- MR16
- Base
- GU10
- Dimming curve
- Logarithmic
- Max power
- 3 W
- Weight
- 54 g
- Firmware tested
- 3.0.21
- Tested
- Aug 11, 2024
- Features
- Power-loss recovery