Tried a few different Warm White GU10 led bulbs and they are nowhere near as nice a light as the halogen. The halogen give off a friendly (but juicy) yellowish light whereas even the warm white led I've tried are very stark. Whats your experience?
What room these for. Try: https://www.ledhut.co.uk/ Very pleased with their lamps, using cool white in kitchen, warm white in dinning room. The cool white give a nice clean white light,& no blue tinge, using the 6.5w (70w) in kitchen, & 6w (60w) in dinning, both lamps are dimmable.
You can really tell the difference if you accidentally mix up a warm white amongs't a batch of cool white LEDs!!!! Many a time fallen for that.
They are for a basement room, was hoping for something akin to that warm yellowish light you get from incandescent or halogen
A basement room can be used for many things. Good thing with LED Hut they offer a 30 day money back guarantee
Perhaps use warm white dimmable LEDs with a dimmer switch then... IMO the warm white LEDs have a pretty good colour rendering w.r.t. GU10 lamps. Myabe the GU10s you have replaced were dimmer 35W ones, as opposed to 50W ones?
And that is the problem Lec, there is a lot of variation in that definition of a warm white lamp (2700k -3200k),it's the same with cool white & others,also the led quailty can vary between brands & affect affect the K colour.
Indeed !!!! Thanks all, ordered some warm white dimmable from Led Hut. Interesting about the K color, is that the lumens or the kelvin ??
And the best dimmer for led's is the Varilight. http://www.screwfix.com/p/varilight-trailing-edge-push-dimmer-1g-1-2w-400w-va/94816 https://www.varilight.co.uk/dimmers/dimmers-for-leds.php And read instructions, as they can be set in trailing edge (default) & what is normally used or leading edge mode, plus you can set the dimming level.
Brilliant, great info thanks KIAB and all. Whats the story re intumescant hats. Years ago the sparky fitted them as there is a flat above. In my basement conversion I guess they are not needed as lower level in the same flat. (And low heat from LED's ?) rgds
Also the Varilight dimmers carry a ten year gaurentee - pretty good eh ! Have brought a few of these for home, available with a good selection of faceplates or you can just buy the dimmer module if you want to keep your original faceplates Done this myself as have a couple of nice Victorian (style) chrome faceplates so just swapped out the modules Soft start as well which apparently helps with the life of the led lamps All in all, a good recommendation
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