WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:04.612 I have something like five video topics that  have half-baked sorta-started scripts 00:00:04.612 --> 00:00:06.388 and it’s driving me up the wall a little bit 00:00:06.388 --> 00:00:10.167 so here’s a hastily thrown-together script brought to you by a disappointing tript to home depot, 00:00:10.167 --> 00:00:11.320 he quipped. 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:16.975 Philips, and this is not sponsored in any way which will become increasingly clear as I get more and more upset with them, 00:00:16.975 --> 00:00:21.504 makes what is to me the holy grail of dimmable LED light bulb. 00:00:21.504 --> 00:00:25.536 They call the feature I’ve grown to love the “Warm Glow effect” 00:00:25.536 --> 00:00:33.529 and the idea is that these can rather faithfully mimic the shifting color temperature of an incandescent light bulb as it’s dimmed. 00:00:33.529 --> 00:00:35.072 Here, take a look; 00:00:35.072 --> 00:00:36.676 Dimmer, warmer! 00:00:36.676 --> 00:00:38.517 Brighter, less warm. 00:00:38.517 --> 00:00:40.104 Kinda dim, kinda warm. 00:00:40.104 --> 00:00:42.306 Really dim, really warm. 00:00:42.720 --> 00:00:49.260 I know I’m old fashioned, but this is exactly  the sort of thing I want my light bulbs to do.   00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:52.794 See, back when hot glowy wires were the norm, 00:00:52.794 --> 00:00:59.213 a dimmer switch would cause the light output of a tungsten lamp to shift downward from its 2700 kelvin 00:00:59.213 --> 00:01:03.186 (or maybe 3000 kelvin in the case of halogen) color temperature 00:01:03.186 --> 00:01:07.120 into a progressively warmer-looking color as brightness was reduced. 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:11.253 This happened because the filament was  in fact getting cooler, 00:01:11.253 --> 00:01:18.137 and yes the fact that we describe cooler literal temperatures as  warmer color temperatures does rile some folks up a bit 00:01:18.137 --> 00:01:20.987 but language doesn’t have to be scientifically precise. 00:01:20.987 --> 00:01:22.614 Except, of course, when I say it does. 00:01:23.150 --> 00:01:28.110 Anyway, in an incandescent lamp, the apparent  color temperature is a result of the filament’s   00:01:28.110 --> 00:01:35.074 literal, actual temperature because the fantastically hot  filament is essentially a blackbody radiator. 00:01:35.074 --> 00:01:43.094 We call this a 2700K color temp because that filament  is 2700 kelvins hot, 00:01:43.094 --> 00:01:45.550 or 2462 Celsius hot, 00:01:45.550 --> 00:01:48.296 or 4400 Fahrenhot. 00:01:48.296 --> 00:01:51.826 When you run one on a dimmer  switch and limit the power going to the lamp, 00:01:51.826 --> 00:01:58.224 the filament gets less hot, resulting in not only  less light but also warmer-looking light. 00:01:58.224 --> 00:02:03.547 Because again, the color temperature is a function of the  filament’s actual temperature. 00:02:03.547 --> 00:02:08.790 At very low light levels, the color is almost an amber, not far  off from candlelight. 00:02:08.790 --> 00:02:12.235 And when I want to rest my eyes in a dimly-lit environment, 00:02:12.235 --> 00:02:15.242 that’s exactly the sorta thing I’m looking for. 00:02:15.600 --> 00:02:18.529 If you know anything about my Christmas light shenanigans, 00:02:18.529 --> 00:02:24.480 it probably won’t surprise you to learn that my biggest issue with LED lighting  as it was first hitting the scene was that,   00:02:24.480 --> 00:02:27.556 even once we got dimming pretty-well figured out 00:02:27.556 --> 00:02:31.452 the dimming experience always seemed wrong to me. 00:02:31.760 --> 00:02:34.856 Side-note, this isn’t a video on how dimmer switches work, 00:02:34.856 --> 00:02:40.081 but as a brief summary dimmer switches repeatedly chop up the AC sine wave as it goes through them 00:02:40.081 --> 00:02:44.421 because that’s really the only efficient way to throttle output power. 00:02:44.421 --> 00:02:47.726 While that approach was fine for incandescent lamps, 00:02:47.726 --> 00:02:53.760 when dimmable CFLs and LEDs appeared, which both  have electronic drivers to control the glowy bits, 00:02:54.320 --> 00:02:58.738 well it required some careful circuit  design in order for these new lamps to 00:02:58.738 --> 00:03:02.562 A) work correctly with that gnarly chopped up power 00:03:02.562 --> 00:03:07.570 and B) interpret its relative choppiness as a desired brightness output. 00:03:07.570 --> 00:03:14.269 The fact that dimmable LED bulbs manage to work at all on this wacky power is pretty impressive if you ask me, 00:03:14.269 --> 00:03:22.145 although lots of older dimmer switches themselves couldn’t handle the strange load characteristics of these newfangled lamps 00:03:22.145 --> 00:03:26.759 and that’s why the dimmability of LEDs is still a sore spots for some folks 00:03:26.759 --> 00:03:30.985 as you may have needed to replace some dimmer switches if you had a flickerfest. 00:03:30.985 --> 00:03:33.195 If you haven’t looked into this in a long time, 00:03:33.195 --> 00:03:39.115 LED-compatible dimmers are pretty cheap these  days and so long as you’re comfortable swapping one out, 00:03:39.115 --> 00:03:43.342 I promise the energy savings are gonna  pay for that new dimmer switch pretty quick. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:48.640 Uh, right, so even once we got dimmable  LEDs working well with dimmer switches,   00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:52.440 they never looked right to me at low brightness  levels because, 00:03:52.440 --> 00:03:55.732 without getting warmer like an incandescent bulb does, 00:03:55.732 --> 00:04:02.637 a warm-white balanced LED starts to look almost… grey when you get down below 25% brightness or so. 00:04:02.637 --> 00:04:10.501 It’s nice that it’s less light, but there was no way I could rewire my brain to accept that as anything but “wrong.” 00:04:10.501 --> 00:04:15.355 So it was a glorious day when I first laid eyes on the “Warm Glow” packaging, 00:04:15.355 --> 00:04:18.127 saw the little picture Philips put together and realized 00:04:18.127 --> 00:04:21.341 “Holy crap they’ve done it. This I’ve gotta try!” 00:04:21.341 --> 00:04:24.685 and I bought a couple, took ‘em home, and was hooked. 00:04:24.685 --> 00:04:30.096 Finally, an LED light bulb that truly looks and behaves like  an incandescent lamp, 00:04:30.096 --> 00:04:34.390 bringing all of the tech’s advantages with virtually none of the downsides. 00:04:34.390 --> 00:04:37.949 While you weren’t looking, I put a Warm Glow bulb in here. 00:04:37.949 --> 00:04:38.819 That’s right. 00:04:38.819 --> 00:04:39.735 This guy. 00:04:39.735 --> 00:04:40.664 Is. 00:04:40.664 --> 00:04:41.684 Not. 00:04:42.752 --> 00:04:45.020 Incandescent. That was a really smooth reveal. 00:04:45.280 --> 00:04:47.424 That was quite some time ago. 00:04:47.424 --> 00:04:51.624 Philips has been making these for… gosh close to a decade now I think, 00:04:51.624 --> 00:04:56.935 I know for a fact I bought a bunch back in  2016 including this one right here. 00:04:56.935 --> 00:05:00.737 And I had a pretty good guess into how they worked - 00:05:00.737 --> 00:05:07.367 it seemed like there were probably two sets of diodes, perhaps balanced at 3000 kelvin and 2100 kelvin, 00:05:07.367 --> 00:05:12.453 and at full brightness they mixed together to make what looked like 2700 kelvin. 00:05:12.453 --> 00:05:17.181 Then, as the bulb dimmed, it would first lower the output of the cooler LEDs, 00:05:17.181 --> 00:05:22.341 gradually shifting the color temperature down, until finally only the warm set was lit. 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:25.920 It could then still get a bit dimmer  but that’s as warm as it’ll get. 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:32.080 Lately they started producing filament style  bulbs with the warm glow effect which reveal that,   00:05:32.080 --> 00:05:34.911 sure enough, that’s exactly how this works. 00:05:34.911 --> 00:05:41.943 You can even see when the bulb isn’t lit that two of the filament sticks are a bit paler than the other two. 00:05:41.943 --> 00:05:47.980 In case you weren’t aware, modern white LEDs are actually not too far off from fluorescent lighting tech 00:05:47.980 --> 00:05:53.907 as the diodes emit blue light - or, as is increasingly common,  near-UV light - which is then converted 00:05:53.907 --> 00:05:58.813 by a phosphor mix sitting on top of the diodes into  other wavelengths of light. 00:05:58.813 --> 00:06:05.212 When that's all combined it produces a white light - at least, one  that’s good enough for our eyes, anyway.   00:06:05.440 --> 00:06:10.080 Generally, LEDs with a warm color  temperature have a very deep yellow,   00:06:10.080 --> 00:06:12.663 almost orange phosphor coating, 00:06:12.663 --> 00:06:18.686 and as you move up the color temperature scale the phosphors become an increasingly pale yellow. 00:06:18.686 --> 00:06:24.409 Take a look at one of these video lights, which have a matrix of warm white, cool white, and RGB diodes 00:06:24.409 --> 00:06:26.771 and it’s obvious which diodes are which. 00:06:27.200 --> 00:06:32.044 So, as predicted, at full brightness all of the filament sticks are lit. 00:06:32.044 --> 00:06:39.387 And as the light is dimmed, at first only two of the filament sticks (the cooler-looking ones) start to get dimmer.   00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:47.397 Since, as that happens, an increasingly greater proportion of the total light output is coming from the still-bright, warmer filasticks, 00:06:47.397 --> 00:06:50.460 the mixed light output appears progressively warmer. 00:06:50.640 --> 00:06:52.448 At least, to a point. 00:06:52.448 --> 00:06:58.165 Once the cooler filasticks are completely extinguished, it can’t get any warmer but it will get dimmer. 00:06:58.165 --> 00:07:01.622 In fact these will just barely glow if you want them to. 00:07:01.622 --> 00:07:06.383 At first I thought this idea would be a poor fit for these  filament-style bulbs, 00:07:06.383 --> 00:07:12.175 and it does look a little weird to have only half of them doing anything at low brightness, 00:07:12.175 --> 00:07:18.054 but given how this style of bulb isn’t exactly easy to stare at anyway, I think it’s fine. 00:07:18.054 --> 00:07:25.280 And actually, once they started making these the last meaningful differences between  incandescent and LED were all but eliminated. 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:31.008 I have been extremely pleased with these LED  lamps since I first discovered them. 00:07:31.008 --> 00:07:35.934 They’ve performed excellently and flicker-free on nearly  every dimmer switch I’ve tried, 00:07:35.934 --> 00:07:42.560 although I have had some flickering on certain switches but it generally  happens only at very specific brightness values.   00:07:43.363 --> 00:07:49.888 Also, they have a great light quality to them; not exceptionally good but certainly better than average. 00:07:49.888 --> 00:07:54.978 And in all this time, if memory serves,  I’ve had exactly three failures: 00:07:54.978 --> 00:07:59.314 The worst one was a bule that just died about a year after I started using it. 00:07:59.314 --> 00:08:01.277 And then there's this one. 00:08:01.277 --> 00:08:07.910 Uh, this one seems to have some sort of wiring problem because at full brightness, it can get a little flickery. 00:08:07.910 --> 00:08:14.434 And I just discovered (literally just now) that at low brightness settings, it's not doing the dimming effect correctly. 00:08:14.434 --> 00:08:17.563 All of the filmanet sticks are working together. 00:08:17.563 --> 00:08:22.991 And then the other failure, I think, was just a hilarious manufacturing boo-boo. 00:08:22.991 --> 00:08:28.322 I have a frosted glass bulb version of this bulb and it works absolutely fine but… 00:08:28.322 --> 00:08:29.695 it doesn’t get warmer! 00:08:29.695 --> 00:08:38.311 It's just a wee bit cooler-looking than the package mate it came with so I think that one got made with all-cool filasticks. 00:08:38.311 --> 00:08:41.048 I’d show it to you but I can’t find it. 00:08:41.167 --> 00:08:41.667 Oops. 00:08:42.156 --> 00:08:50.490 Aside from those three failed lamps, there is literally just one other problem I’ve ever had with these and it’s, again, minor. 00:08:50.490 --> 00:08:52.661 But… weird. 00:08:52.661 --> 00:09:00.833 I have a few of these PAR20 lamps in recessed cans and all of  them handle the transition from cool to warm a little bit wrongly. 00:09:00.833 --> 00:09:03.471 If you start out at full brightness, they’re perfect! 00:09:03.471 --> 00:09:10.356 But if you dim them down to a certain point, even though it starts out mixed correctly the bulbs will slowly just… 00:09:10.640 --> 00:09:15.384 stop outputting any light from the cool diodes and go full-warm. 00:09:15.384 --> 00:09:19.920 It took me a while to realize this was happening because  it occurs over a period of several seconds 00:09:19.920 --> 00:09:25.040 and they all do it in precisely the same way - I have four of them on the same switch   00:09:25.040 --> 00:09:27.016 and they behave identically. 00:09:27.016 --> 00:09:33.492 In fact I’ve got another pair on a different switch from a different manufacturer and yep, same exact thing. 00:09:33.492 --> 00:09:41.415 In fact that assured me it wasn’t the switch drifting a bit as I thought, it’s definitely a flaw in that bulb’s driver design, 00:09:41.415 --> 00:09:47.179 but since it’s really only a problem around a relatively narrow dimness band, I’ll give it a pass. 00:09:47.179 --> 00:09:50.048 It’s just… pretty weird. 00:09:50.048 --> 00:09:54.000 Now, I said that I’m making this video  thanks to a disappointing trip to Home Depot. 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:57.114 In my area, and maybe this is nationwide, I dunno, 00:09:57.114 --> 00:10:02.704 the different hardware stores seem to have exclusive deals with certain lighting brands. 00:10:02.704 --> 00:10:08.908 My Mostly Midwestern Mega Merchandise Mecca, Menards, doesn’t sell Philips bulbs at all. 00:10:08.908 --> 00:10:12.080 They sell mainly Sylvania - and they’re gonna come up later. 00:10:12.640 --> 00:10:17.288 I think Lowe’s sells mainly GE bulbs from  what I remember. 00:10:17.288 --> 00:10:22.847 And wherever else you might find a light bulb tends to have a mishmash of whatever, really. 00:10:22.847 --> 00:10:30.480 Anyway, the important thing is that the Orange Store has been the place I needed to go to get these or really any Philips lighting products.   00:10:31.040 --> 00:10:35.565 And I made a trip to the Orange Store to get a few of these for some new lamps of mine 00:10:35.565 --> 00:10:38.385 and there were none to be found. 00:10:38.385 --> 00:10:44.335 No shelf space in that entire store was devoted  to my favorite, fantastic Philips flight bulbs. 00:10:44.800 --> 00:10:47.010 No matter, I have Internet. 00:10:47.010 --> 00:10:51.366 That was pretty fruitful but the pickin’s are getting increasingly slim. 00:10:51.366 --> 00:10:55.742 There are nowhere near as many varieties available as there used to be, 00:10:55.742 --> 00:10:58.557 and a ton of what shows up is out of stock. 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:03.760 Not long ago Philips was putting this tech into  pretty much any kind of lamp you could think of, 00:11:03.760 --> 00:11:07.868 from your basic A19 things, to candelabra-type  bulbs, 00:11:07.868 --> 00:11:10.066 frosted floods and PAR lamps, 00:11:10.066 --> 00:11:13.437 and even GU10 halogen replacements! 00:11:13.437 --> 00:11:20.095 In fact, they even sold those fancy LED trim retrofits meant to go in can lights with the Warm Glow effect. 00:11:20.095 --> 00:11:22.276 I’ve got some of ‘em and they’re great! 00:11:22.560 --> 00:11:27.063 But these days? Well, they seem to be an  endangered species. 00:11:27.063 --> 00:11:30.409 Even Philps’ own website isn’t helping things. 00:11:30.409 --> 00:11:35.846 Yeah, they still have a page for  the product, but you click on the link to browse and… 00:11:35.846 --> 00:11:37.513 well this is useless. 00:11:37.513 --> 00:11:43.297 Lots of these are clearly not Warm Glow capable - anything daylight balanced surely isn’t, 00:11:43.297 --> 00:11:49.408 and looking through the filters on the left - yep, there’s nothing there specifically for this feature. 00:11:49.408 --> 00:11:52.256 So what in the heck is goin’ on? 00:11:52.256 --> 00:11:55.615 It can’t just be you weirdos who like daylight-balanced lighting, 00:11:55.615 --> 00:12:01.569 I mean plenty of soft white bulbs are still for sale and any remotely nice one will be dimmable. 00:12:01.569 --> 00:12:04.400 It’s pretty much just  the contractor grade stuff that isn’t these days. 00:12:05.040 --> 00:12:06.664 Well, I don’t know. 00:12:06.664 --> 00:12:08.065 But I can guess! 00:12:08.065 --> 00:12:14.408 There is of course the whole global supply chain stuff we’re still dealing with but I don’t think that can quite explain this. 00:12:14.408 --> 00:12:18.151 As recently as January I ran into  a couple of Home Depot stores 00:12:18.151 --> 00:12:20.346 and they both had a solid selection. 00:12:20.346 --> 00:12:26.778 Although I’ll be honest I got inklings of trouble since I couldn’t find a ceiling fan bulb with Warm Glow 00:12:26.778 --> 00:12:28.694 which was why I went in there in the first place. 00:12:29.280 --> 00:12:33.360 I feel as though since the Orange Store  had just six months ago committed a good   00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:38.220 section of the light bulb aisle to these  bulbs that supply chain stuff is unlikely. 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:45.146 What I think is far more likely to be the case  is that dang smart stuff all the kids are into these days. 00:12:45.146 --> 00:12:47.567 I think it was an inside job. 00:12:47.567 --> 00:12:50.253 [whispers angrily] Hue did this! 00:12:50.561 --> 00:12:57.865 Philips has definitely been pushing their Hue line of smart whatevers (and plenty of non-Hue smart whatevers it seems) 00:12:57.865 --> 00:13:02.957 and while they coexisted in harmony with Warm Glow for quite a few years, 00:13:02.957 --> 00:13:08.094 I’m thinking Philips is gonna make the folks like me who are just a little bit too anal about our lighting 00:13:08.094 --> 00:13:11.337 invest in something like their “tunable white” bulbs. 00:13:11.337 --> 00:13:15.338 Actually, I can’t tell if they get any warmer than 2700K, 00:13:15.338 --> 00:13:20.717 so I might even need to get one of those full color  ones and get all fiddly with an app or some junk. 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:24.868 Now lest you think I’m going into  this future all kicking and screaming…   00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:27.259 well I am. A little bit. 00:13:27.259 --> 00:13:32.542 But I actually have a lot of smart lighting stuff and have for years, 00:13:32.542 --> 00:13:37.924 but I am on team “smarten the switches, not the bulbs.” 00:13:37.924 --> 00:13:42.400 I have bought a grand total of two Smart Bulbs in my entirely life, 00:13:42.400 --> 00:13:44.279 one of which never got used. 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:50.383 You can find a really old video of mine where I went into home automation stuff back in like 2017 - 00:13:50.383 --> 00:13:52.240 oh actually it was December of 2016, 00:13:52.880 --> 00:13:53.990 holy cow. 00:13:53.990 --> 00:13:59.417 And in it I talked about my Z-wave dimmer switches, all of which I’m still using by the way! 00:13:59.417 --> 00:14:06.646 Z-wave and Zigbee are two communications protocols  made specifically for home automation stuff, 00:14:06.646 --> 00:14:14.692 and the really neat thing about those protocols is that none  of my smart switches or sensors even know what the Internet is. 00:14:14.692 --> 00:14:20.820 My entire smart home has one device connected to the internet, not counting smart speakers, 00:14:20.820 --> 00:14:25.280 and that’s the hub which actually  processes commands and coordinates all those switches. 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:32.933 That’s the last I’ll speak on the... matter, though as the smart home landscape is in the process of changing, 00:14:32.933 --> 00:14:35.437 and hopefully to something simpler and better. 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:42.999 I just wish Z-wave and Zigbee were more  widely understood as the internet-optional ecosystems that they are. 00:14:42.999 --> 00:14:48.449 Needing a hub is actually a very good thing, especially when it comes to network security, 00:14:48.449 --> 00:14:50.738 but nobody ever communicated that very well. 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:54.678 Still, I’m not anti-smart bulb, for what it’s worth. 00:14:54.678 --> 00:15:00.708 Installing a light switch can be intimidating and most smart switches need a neutral wire to function, 00:15:00.708 --> 00:15:04.504 which many older homes didn’t run through the switch boxes. 00:15:04.504 --> 00:15:08.556 And indeed some rather new homes as I’ve recently discovered. 00:15:08.556 --> 00:15:13.282 But all I’ve ever wanted with my home automation, at least in the realm of lighting, 00:15:13.282 --> 00:15:16.085 is to have control over brightness. 00:15:16.085 --> 00:15:20.622 And since a light switch is usually in control of at least a few light sockets, 00:15:20.622 --> 00:15:26.465 it was MUCH cheaper for me to install smart switches than it was to buy smart bulbs. 00:15:27.280 --> 00:15:33.120 Anyway, while I don’t care to have  control over the color of my light bulbs or anything like that 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:37.360 I do want them to mimic incandescent  lights as closely as possible,   00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:42.880 and the Warm Glow bulb was an elegant - and also pretty cheap! - means to that end. 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:48.971 The new tunable white options are interesting… but here’s the thing. 00:15:48.971 --> 00:15:52.814 I never want daylight balanced lighting in my home. 00:15:52.814 --> 00:15:55.166 I know that lots of people find it useful, 00:15:55.166 --> 00:15:59.573 and I can see the value of a light bulb  which shifts the color temp throughout the day; 00:15:59.573 --> 00:16:03.867 being daylight balanced when the  sun’s up, and nice and warm when it’s not. 00:16:04.560 --> 00:16:08.647 For me personally, though, that just doesn’t  have much value to me. 00:16:08.647 --> 00:16:13.178 I know not everyone has enough natural light in their home to do this but, 00:16:13.178 --> 00:16:16.759 I generally don’t need the lights on at all when the sun is up. 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:24.948 And to be honest, on dismal overcast days I actually find the warmth of incandescent-balanced light to be soothing and cozy. 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:31.028 For that reason, a bulb with daylight and  soft white diodes would be half wasted on me.   00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:37.920 I suppose if it had a super-warm set of diodes, too, and  could still do a warm-glow-like effect 00:16:38.323 --> 00:16:44.320 that would be neat, but once you get that complicated you  might as well just make the thing a smart bulb.   00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:47.446 And that’s why I appreciate these so much. 00:16:47.446 --> 00:16:52.173 It’s a cheap, simple, and elegant tweak to the dimmable LED concept, 00:16:52.173 --> 00:16:57.680 adding that subtle but very important  effect back into a modern, efficient light bulb. 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:00.595 That’s all I was ever asking for, 00:17:00.595 --> 00:17:06.473 and dangit if we’re gonna lose this option to smarter, connected light bulbs I’ll be upset. 00:17:06.473 --> 00:17:09.293 And that's why I bought all these and stocked up. 00:17:09.293 --> 00:17:09.868 Philips, 00:17:09.868 --> 00:17:11.680 YOU ARE NOT TAKING THIS AWAY FROM ME 00:17:12.320 --> 00:17:13.851 Oh, right, Sylvania. 00:17:13.851 --> 00:17:15.720 I said they were gonna come up. 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:19.705 For a short while, Sylvania was copying this idea. 00:17:19.705 --> 00:17:25.167 They called it “premium dimming” or something like  that; I only remember seeing them a few years ago, 00:17:25.167 --> 00:17:28.671 and I never bought any to compare to Philips. 00:17:28.671 --> 00:17:31.503 There are a few new-old-stock options out there, 00:17:31.503 --> 00:17:34.286 but it doesn’t look like they’re still in production. 00:17:34.286 --> 00:17:35.222 Again. 00:17:35.222 --> 00:17:36.730 Boo! 00:17:36.730 --> 00:17:42.400 I’d be curious to know if people just don’t understand what  this feature is or knew to look out for it. 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:47.392 There are enough people that just don’t care about  color temperature at all - I mean, 00:17:47.392 --> 00:17:51.966 if there’s one thing that offends me more than a daylight-balanced  light bulb in a bedroom, 00:17:51.966 --> 00:17:56.783 it’s mixed color temperatures in the same room (or worse, fixture) 00:17:56.783 --> 00:18:01.214 Yet there’s a ton of folks out there who truly don’t care about that. 00:18:01.214 --> 00:18:02.974 Maybe they can't see it. 00:18:02.974 --> 00:18:08.016 I dunno, I don’t know how they can look past a fixture riddled with a  hodgepodge of different color lighting in it but oh well. 00:18:08.016 --> 00:18:08.852 They do. 00:18:09.120 --> 00:18:11.468 Are these light bulbs for everyone? 00:18:11.468 --> 00:18:16.021 No. If you don’t like warm lighting, they’re definitely not for you. 00:18:16.021 --> 00:18:20.560 But for those of us somewhere in  between fuddy-duddy and smart home enthusiast, 00:18:21.360 --> 00:18:22.776 they’re great. 00:18:22.776 --> 00:18:26.772 Philips, if you're listening, please don’t stop production of these. 00:18:26.772 --> 00:18:29.828 I hope this is just a supply chain hiccup, but 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:32.513 I’m honestly not holding my breath. 00:18:32.513 --> 00:18:37.111 Whoever was first responsible for these, thank you so much for your efforts. 00:18:37.111 --> 00:18:40.620 I truly have never been happier with a lighting product. 00:18:40.620 --> 00:18:47.157 And, I’ve converted a fair share of LED skeptics by  convincing them to try a Warm Glow bulb. 00:18:47.157 --> 00:18:51.752 These are really so close to incandescent dimming in their behavior and appearance, 00:18:51.752 --> 00:18:54.320 and if that’s your jam these are your bulbs. 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:56.432 Anyway, that’s all. 00:18:56.432 --> 00:19:03.648 These bulbs have come up in the past a few times on the channel but I’ve never bothered making a video specifically about them. 00:19:03.648 --> 00:19:06.348 And frankly, I wasn’t planning on it. 00:19:06.348 --> 00:19:12.065 But now that it looks like they might be an endangered  species, well I mean I couldn’t just sit here and do nothing! 00:19:12.065 --> 00:19:18.436 I suppose it’s very possible that dimmer switches are just far more of a niche thing than I realized. 00:19:18.436 --> 00:19:21.647 Certainly I can think of plenty of environments without them. 00:19:21.647 --> 00:19:26.789 And, uh, now that I think about it, I imagine most rental apartments don’t offer them. 00:19:26.789 --> 00:19:29.001 So maybe that’s what’s going on here. 00:19:29.001 --> 00:19:33.280 Smart bulbs are a nice way to add dimming,  remote control, and more with little hassle. 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:39.079 Still, Philips was putting this tech in to such  a wide variety of products not that long ago 00:19:39.079 --> 00:19:42.529 that I think dimmers can’t be *that* niche, can they? 00:19:42.529 --> 00:19:49.080 Oh, and I didn’t even mention the really irritating thing which is that, now that I mostly have to buy these online, 00:19:49.080 --> 00:19:54.338 I’m not getting those great time-of-sale rebates my utility offers on LED bulbs. 00:19:54.338 --> 00:19:57.269 It’s a good thing these have proven to be so reliable overall. 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:02.100 Oh and might I suggest, if you’re looking to add  some dimming in your life, 00:20:02.100 --> 00:20:04.727 you should look at these plug-in dimmers for lamps. 00:20:04.727 --> 00:20:07.694 Sure, they don’t help with any permanent lighting in your home, 00:20:07.694 --> 00:20:11.104 but a few lamps here and there can  make a big difference to a space. 00:20:11.104 --> 00:20:13.480 Plus, lots of these have smart functions! 00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:17.257 I’ve been using a Z-wave enabled dimmer for this video. 00:20:17.257 --> 00:20:20.320 Usually I try to think of some sort of real ending before I c 00:20:21.221 --> 00:20:23.763 ♫ endangeredly smooth jazz ♫ 00:20:25.520 --> 00:20:28.961 They call the feature… that’s the wrong box! 00:20:28.961 --> 00:20:30.276 You did this to yourself. 00:20:30.560 --> 00:20:35.400 We call this a 2700K color temperature because… (laughs)   00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:40.371 You gotta pick it up a little higher there, buddy! 00:20:43.040 --> 00:20:45.183 That’s exactly how this happens. 00:20:45.183 --> 00:20:49.811 You can even see when the bulb isn’t lit… why did I say “happens?” 00:20:49.811 --> 00:20:51.778 That’s not what the s… that’s not what it says. 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:56.880 And in all this time, if memory serves, I’ve had exactly two failures.   00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:59.765 I just remembered a third one. 00:20:59.765 --> 00:21:04.572 And as I made a trip to the Orange Store to get a few for some new lamps of mine. 00:21:04.572 --> 00:21:08.325 Well… that’s not the words that are there. 00:21:08.539 --> 00:21:09.074 [fart sound] 00:21:11.138 --> 00:21:14.516 Man, I forgot to move the frame for that blooper where I bonked the lampshade. 00:21:14.516 --> 00:21:17.430 That's gonna haunt me forever. 00:21:17.430 --> 00:21:19.748 OK, well not for that long. 00:21:19.748 --> 00:21:22.551 But I hope this video haunts Philips execs forever! 00:21:22.551 --> 00:21:25.123 Unless of course they keep this product line going. 00:21:25.123 --> 00:21:26.218 Then I will revoke the haunt.