Review on 6-Hour Timer LED Lytes Flameless Decorative Candles - 5 Ivory Wax Narrow Battery Candle Set With Realistic 3D Flame & Wick Flickering by Chad Boho

There are too many companies who sell fake candles to ever count but there are far fewer factories in China that make them, which means despite all those brands there are actually only a few that are really different. LED Lytes seems to be serious about getting into the imitation candle business and if this is an example of what they’re capable of selling they have a bright future ahead of them.WHAT THEY DON’T USUALLY TELL YOUI could fill your head with all kinds of information or repeat the same old glowing things you read over and over in these reviews but I’ll take a different route instead and tell you a few things you don’t ordinarily see in a review.THE THREE THINGS THAT WILL HELP YOU THE MOST1. So many reviews wax poetic about how a candle smells or how much it feels like a real candle. Stop right there, those things are just marketing fluff. The smell will go away after a few weeks and probably smells really artificial and you probably can’t smell it when you get a few feet away from it. And that wax coating? It’s super thin and will get dirty and how many times are you going to feel your candle after you first unwrap it?2. You rarely hear about how much of the candle glows but that can make or break having it look realistic. Real candles don’t have dark battery compartments at the bottom and any LED candle that does should be off your list. Look at a real candle when its lit, the amount that glows near the top is what your fake candle should look like.3. The flame is the most important thing, and it’s unbelievably difficult to reproduce so the majority of fake candle designers try to bury the flame inside and convince you that its the look of a partially burned down candle and yes that’s partially true but its a boring non-romantic look and doesn’t equal the look of an exposed flickering flame. The two most common ways to try to replicate a real flame is to either raise and lower the brightness or to wobble a thin piece of flame shaped plastic over an LED bulb. The first method looks like a bulb that is constantly getting brighter and dimmer and the second method looks great on TV commercials or in the store until you get them home and have to look at them for awhile, until you throw them in the trash. This company takes a different approach called a 3D flame which is a flame shaped bulb that sits atop a black wick that looks like, well, a candle wick. You can even bend the wick slightly to simulate a candle in the wind if you like. The bulb does flicker a lot, but it changes colors internally with white, orange, green, blue hues just like a real flame burning slowly and steadily, not wobbling wildly or cycling from bright to dark. It’s the most realistic I’ve ever seen.ENTER THE 3D FLAMEBeing a new company LED Lytes only has a few models available and so far only two of them feature the 3D flame, both pillar sets, either slender or wide. Their tall taper candles do not yet have this technology and what they do have looks pretty ordinary but stay tuned, I hear 3D flames may be in the works for tapers.THE BOTTOM LINEThese are the most realistic looking pillar candles I’ve seen and they have amazing battery life, mine have been on every night from Thanksgiving to Valentines Day on the same set if batteries and they are still shining as bright as ever. They’re not the cheapest but they are the best.