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Review on πŸ”† Reelco Dimmable 2.5W Daylight Bulb Replacement by Jessica Lawson

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Know your light when replacing this size halogen

Very nice daylight temperature led lighting. I prefer the typical low temperature lighting which seems too yellow to me. It's also nice that it dims without flickering (just a dark "Nite" setting on my microwave hood). However, keep in mind your lamp, I was expecting it to be plug and play, but in my case it wasn't. Typical halogen fixtures may not allow these very good LED bulbs to be installed without modifying the socket. The problem is that standard sockets have a smaller cross-sectional rectangular base (where the glass meets the pins), while newer LED bulbs have the same OD circle as the bulb, a full cylinder to the base. their base. In the case of my microwave light, the pins on the new LED were too short/the base was too big to use the existing fixture, as the smaller rectangular base didn't allow the larger diameter bulb to fit completely in the fixture. There are probably many workarounds, you can use a replacement bulb socket made for that version of the LED; In my case, I modified an existing fixture (literally removed the built-in rectangular portion of the base) to allow the bulb to fully snap into place.

Pros
  • cool product
Cons
  • something different