Low flickerPhilips Hue LTD017 5/6" downlight tunable white smart bulb
The verdict
A tunable white 5/6" downlight bulb. Its white light is good (CRI 89, Rf 89), it dims down to 1.2 lm, its warmest white is 2211K, and flicker risk is low.
A solid all-round bulb with no major weakness in my tests.
CRI 89 · Rf 89
Averaged over its warm, neutral and cool settings. #52 of 119 bulbs.
Down to 1.2 lm
Brightest white 700 lm. #20 of 119 bulbs.
Warmest white 2211K
mel-DER 0.33 at that setting. Daylight is 1.0. #68 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.
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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 Retrofit base.
Setup and specs
- Color mode
- Tunable white
- White range
- 2200K to 7350K
- Shape
- 5/6" downlight
- Base
- Retrofit
- Dimming curve
- Logarithmic
- Max power
- 10.8 W
- Weight
- 304 g
- Firmware tested
- 1.116.5
- Tested
- Aug 24, 2024
- Features
- Power-loss recovery