Review on 💡 Torchstar Recessed Lighting Retrofit Downlight: High-Quality Industrial Electrical Components for Lighting by Richard Cuneo

I bought these because they were the only recessed LEDs I could find. They're easy to install - I like the integrated junction box. However, the drivers appear to be of poor quality and tend to flicker from power surges. This is not a dimmer problem and it is not a single block problem. I've connected them to several brands of dimmers, all of which are on the compatibility list, as well as standard non-dimmer switches, and I'm still having issues with intermittent flickering. When this happens, all the lights flicker together. We have whole house surge protection on the panel to deal with surges, so this appears to be due to low mains voltage. If flicker occurs, the dimmer settings don't seem to matter, and increasing or decreasing the brightness doesn't reduce the flicker. Unfortunately we bought 32 of these for a rebuild and installed all of them before noticing the problem so we'll live with that for now as it's quite a hassle to change them.