January 14, 2017 at 19:45Best half-price LED bulbs
The day before yesterday I unexpectedly ended up in the IKEA Belaya Dacha store (I was nearby and decided to call in, buy new test bulbs). It was found that in Ikea, there is a sale until January 25, and many lamps are sold at half price. These lamps with honest 600 Lm (full replacement of a 60 W incandescent lamp), a very high color rendering index CRI (Ra) = 91.5, ripple of less than 10% and support for adjusting brightness (dimming) sell for 249 rubles (matte) and 229 rubles (transparent) ) at the usual price of 499 rubles.
The IKEA website has a regular price for these lamps, and only a few have a sale price. Moreover, already at home I found that such dimmable candles of 400 Lm were sold to me at 249 rubles apiece, despite the fact that both the website and the price tags in the store cost 399 rubles.
Candles give honest 400 Lm (a full replacement for 40 W incandescent bulbs), their color rendering index is even higher - CRI (Ra) = 92.1, ripple less than 10%, dimmable to almost zero.
Other lamps are also sold with discounts - LEDARE pear 1000 Lm for 499 rubles instead of 899, GX53 1000 Lm for 599 instead of 1299, GX53 600 Lm for 399 instead of 799, GU10 400 Lm for 229 instead of 399, G45 RIET bulb 400 Lm for 169 rubles instead 199, RIET candle 200 Lm for 79 instead of 169, large balls G95 1000 Lm for 649 instead of 799, G95 1800 Lm for 599 instead of 999.
upd .: Thank you readers! It turned out that such prices for these lamps only in IKEA Belaya Dacha. Click on the link www.ikea.com/ru/store/belaya_dacha/sale22You can see which lamps have discounts in this store. If you click on the same link, select another store and click on the “sale” banner, you can see which lamps are selling at discounts in other stores.
I bought all new lamps that have not yet been tested on lamptest.ru.
Five lamps are sold under the same article numbers as before, but now they are different lamps.
The manufacturer changed for three lamps (903.115.97, 003.014.23, 102.667.54), the barcode also changed (for Ikea, the last 5 digits of the barcode are encoded by the manufacturer), for two lamps (203.185.16 and 303.046.51) the design changed while the manufacturer has remained the same and the barcode is exactly the same as with old lamps. You can distinguish them only by designation. For example, the old spot GU10 303.046.51 has the designation LED1493R6, and the new LED1532R6. In the old lens, the LEDs protrude from the housing, and in the new, they are flush with the housing.
It seems that even those lamps that do not change their symbols, part numbers and barcodes, IKEA are slowly improving and improving them. Many IKEA lamps buzzed at work. All new lamps are silent (only quietly hum when dimming). For many lamps, the ripple was 15-25%, and for some even up to 29%, for all new lamps the ripple did not exceed 10%. Many lamps were poorly dimmed (the minimum brightness was about 20% of the nominal), now even with the cheap Lezard dimmer from Auchan the minimum brightness is 7%, and with a special dimmer for LED lamps, the brightness of dimmable lamps can decrease almost to zero.
IKEA has three types of lamps - dimmable LEDARE, non-dimmable LEDARE and RYET.
Most LEDARE lamps have a color rendering index (CRI) of more than 90. In terms of light quality, they are very close to incandescent lamps. No other lamps sold in Russia have such high CRIs, except that Nanosvet has several CRI lamps with about 90. CRIs of more than 90 indicate their Gauss lamps, but this is not true - in fact, most lamps from this manufacturer have a color rendering index is about 85: lamptest.ru/results/?brand_2=on&type_1=on&sort=lamp_cri&page=1&sort=lamp_cri&type=2 .
RYET CRI is about 83. This is at the level of good lamps from all other manufacturers. In addition, RYET has a simplified driver - unlike LEDARE, these lamps cannot work with switches that have an indicator (they flash when the switch is turned off).
IKEA does not sell cold light bulbs, and there are only two 4000K white light bulbs - pears 600 and 1000 Lm. All other lamps have a warm light of 2700K - the same as incandescent lamps. I think this is right - for the home, the best light is warm. White light place only in the office.
IKEA very often takes out lamps from the range and starts selling new models. So the day before yesterday I found that RYET 400 Lm candles were removed from the assortment (LEDARE 400 Lm and RYET 200 Lm remained), all G45 LEDARE balls were removed (only two RYET remained - 200 Lm with E27 base and 400 Lm E14)
All IKEA lamps have a 2 year warranty (although it is not written anywhere). If there is a check, they can be exchanged in that Ikea, where they were bought within two years, if there is no check, the lamps can be exchanged in any Ikea within 2 years from the production date (on any IKEA lamp the year and week of production are written, for example, on the lamps from the title photo that I bought, the production dates are 1543 and 1618, so if the check is lost, 10-20 months of warranty remain).
Last spring, I reviewed all the lamps that were sold at IKEA at that time. I will publish the results of testing new lamps on lamptest.ru in the near future.
Until the sale is over, IKEA lamps are the best LED lamps that you can buy in Russia for 250 rubles. I recommend until January 25 to get to IKEA Belaya Dacha and buy them.
ps Just in case, I’ll write that I do not advertise IKEA and company representatives do not know anything about this publication. They don’t know yet :)
© 2017, Alexey Nadezhin
The IKEA website has a regular price for these lamps, and only a few have a sale price. Moreover, already at home I found that such dimmable candles of 400 Lm were sold to me at 249 rubles apiece, despite the fact that both the website and the price tags in the store cost 399 rubles.
Candles give honest 400 Lm (a full replacement for 40 W incandescent bulbs), their color rendering index is even higher - CRI (Ra) = 92.1, ripple less than 10%, dimmable to almost zero.
Other lamps are also sold with discounts - LEDARE pear 1000 Lm for 499 rubles instead of 899, GX53 1000 Lm for 599 instead of 1299, GX53 600 Lm for 399 instead of 799, GU10 400 Lm for 229 instead of 399, G45 RIET bulb 400 Lm for 169 rubles instead 199, RIET candle 200 Lm for 79 instead of 169, large balls G95 1000 Lm for 649 instead of 799, G95 1800 Lm for 599 instead of 999.
upd .: Thank you readers! It turned out that such prices for these lamps only in IKEA Belaya Dacha. Click on the link www.ikea.com/ru/store/belaya_dacha/sale22You can see which lamps have discounts in this store. If you click on the same link, select another store and click on the “sale” banner, you can see which lamps are selling at discounts in other stores.
I bought all new lamps that have not yet been tested on lamptest.ru.
Five lamps are sold under the same article numbers as before, but now they are different lamps.
The manufacturer changed for three lamps (903.115.97, 003.014.23, 102.667.54), the barcode also changed (for Ikea, the last 5 digits of the barcode are encoded by the manufacturer), for two lamps (203.185.16 and 303.046.51) the design changed while the manufacturer has remained the same and the barcode is exactly the same as with old lamps. You can distinguish them only by designation. For example, the old spot GU10 303.046.51 has the designation LED1493R6, and the new LED1532R6. In the old lens, the LEDs protrude from the housing, and in the new, they are flush with the housing.
It seems that even those lamps that do not change their symbols, part numbers and barcodes, IKEA are slowly improving and improving them. Many IKEA lamps buzzed at work. All new lamps are silent (only quietly hum when dimming). For many lamps, the ripple was 15-25%, and for some even up to 29%, for all new lamps the ripple did not exceed 10%. Many lamps were poorly dimmed (the minimum brightness was about 20% of the nominal), now even with the cheap Lezard dimmer from Auchan the minimum brightness is 7%, and with a special dimmer for LED lamps, the brightness of dimmable lamps can decrease almost to zero.
IKEA has three types of lamps - dimmable LEDARE, non-dimmable LEDARE and RYET.
Most LEDARE lamps have a color rendering index (CRI) of more than 90. In terms of light quality, they are very close to incandescent lamps. No other lamps sold in Russia have such high CRIs, except that Nanosvet has several CRI lamps with about 90. CRIs of more than 90 indicate their Gauss lamps, but this is not true - in fact, most lamps from this manufacturer have a color rendering index is about 85: lamptest.ru/results/?brand_2=on&type_1=on&sort=lamp_cri&page=1&sort=lamp_cri&type=2 .
RYET CRI is about 83. This is at the level of good lamps from all other manufacturers. In addition, RYET has a simplified driver - unlike LEDARE, these lamps cannot work with switches that have an indicator (they flash when the switch is turned off).
IKEA does not sell cold light bulbs, and there are only two 4000K white light bulbs - pears 600 and 1000 Lm. All other lamps have a warm light of 2700K - the same as incandescent lamps. I think this is right - for the home, the best light is warm. White light place only in the office.
IKEA very often takes out lamps from the range and starts selling new models. So the day before yesterday I found that RYET 400 Lm candles were removed from the assortment (LEDARE 400 Lm and RYET 200 Lm remained), all G45 LEDARE balls were removed (only two RYET remained - 200 Lm with E27 base and 400 Lm E14)
All IKEA lamps have a 2 year warranty (although it is not written anywhere). If there is a check, they can be exchanged in that Ikea, where they were bought within two years, if there is no check, the lamps can be exchanged in any Ikea within 2 years from the production date (on any IKEA lamp the year and week of production are written, for example, on the lamps from the title photo that I bought, the production dates are 1543 and 1618, so if the check is lost, 10-20 months of warranty remain).
Last spring, I reviewed all the lamps that were sold at IKEA at that time. I will publish the results of testing new lamps on lamptest.ru in the near future.
Until the sale is over, IKEA lamps are the best LED lamps that you can buy in Russia for 250 rubles. I recommend until January 25 to get to IKEA Belaya Dacha and buy them.
ps Just in case, I’ll write that I do not advertise IKEA and company representatives do not know anything about this publication. They don’t know yet :)
© 2017, Alexey Nadezhin
