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Review on Enhance Your Space with Yangcsl Changing Daylight Ambiance Lighting by Fredrick Edwards

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Buy them for parties where you need bright colored lights - NO WHITE lights!

I recently installed 10 LED downlights in my house where 90% of our lighting is Philips Hue bulbs (which have a wide range of colors including several different white "temps") and these Lamps purchased to complete this system. Not often, but every once in a while we want to change all the bulbs to the same color, and this seems like a cheaper way to accomplish the same thing without spending $49.99 PER BULB for 10 lights (or about $500 before tax for this). from you who don't (I don't like to calculate) to give recessed lights color options in addition to dimming and power control with a remote control. I have no problem with how the lamps were delivered, how they were packaged or how they look out of the box. (Though making the cases light blue would be a bit silly.) I have two complaints that basically ruined this product for me: First, you might think there are several different shades of white when looking at the remote. Control. It turns out there are a few "warm" (read: yellowish) tones, a few "cool" (read: bluish) tones, and strong colors (like red, green, purple, etc.). That's not the case; progressively warmer shades of yellow actually give a VERY green tint. There's only one "white" setting for these bulbs, and that's such a cool white that I'd say it's not white at all, it's light blue. I can't use these bulbs in my lamps because the color temperature is so far from warm white that it looks cartoonish. Second, the remote actually works via infrared, so you have to be standing at just the right angle to control the light you're pointing the remote at. I assumed they would be RF controlled so multiple lights could be controlled at once, but I was wrong. Because these bulbs had to be installed in fixtures 10 feet off the ground, it was not possible to control them with remote controls. TL;DR - The "white" light emitted by these bulbs is actually light blue, not white. "Yellow" tones are actually variations of green. The remote controls are practically unusable. Buy them if you are going to use them in table lamps or accent lights that you can reach with your hands, otherwise the remote control is unlikely to work. PHOTO: I've included two photos: one so you can see how "white" looks compared to the surrounding "warm white" lights, and another to show that "warm white" is actually green is. Apparently they put a message on the page for some reason, but I can't correct it.

Pros
  • cool product
Cons
  • something different