Low flickerDiscontinuedPhilips Hue LCA007 A19 full color smart bulb
The verdict
A full color A19 bulb, now discontinued. Its white light is good (CRI 87, Rf 89), it dims down to 1.5 lm, its warmest white is 1907K, and flicker risk is low.
A solid all-round bulb with no major weakness in my tests.
CRI 87 · Rf 89
Averaged over its warm, neutral and cool settings. #71 of 119 bulbs.
Down to 1.5 lm
Brightest white 863 lm. #26 of 119 bulbs.
Warmest white 1907K
mel-DER 0.34 at that setting. Daylight is 1.0. #18 of 119 bulbs.
Low risk at full, low risk at half
Graded against IEEE 1789.
Full brightnessHalf
76% of Rec. 2020
RGB brightness 0.5 to 85 lm. #36 of 65 color bulbs.
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.
Full color
The triangle is every color the diodes can mix. Hover a corner for that diode.
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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Still sold, same E26 base.
Setup and specs
- Color mode
- Full color
- White range
- 1900K to 7050K
- Shape
- A19
- Base
- E26
- Dimming curve
- Logarithmic
- Max power
- 8.5 W
- Weight
- 96 g
- Firmware tested
- 1.116.3
- Tested
- Jul 18, 2024
- Features
- Power-loss recovery