The Best Green Creative BR30 Cloud LED Bulb 2018
Posted by grce on January 18th, 2018
The Green Creative BR30 Cloud LED topped our leaderboards in best brightness and efficiency. It is e ENERGY STAR certified A19 9W and A19 9W 277V lamps.The unique design does a great job at keeping heat build-up at bay. Floating the LEDs up above the body of the bulb reduces the weight of the bulb, and also helps it manage heat better, which, as anybody who's ever owned a laptop that was prone to overheating can attest, is a good thing. Operating at 8 watts, this lamp is rated for 25,000 life hours. That is less than any other BR30 LED we've tested. Coupled with the bump in brightness, the Cloud LED is easily the most efficient BR30 that's ever passed through our lab, putting out nearly 90 lumens per watt. No other bulb we've tested has managed to hit even 70 lumens per watt. This bulb Brightness indicates the brightness (lumens) of each bulb after 3,000 hours of life testing, as compared with the brightness of a comparable incandescent.
Green Creative also rates the Cloud LED for use with dimmer switches, and in our tests, we found that it did, indeed, work with all of the switches in our lab, dimming down to roughly 7 percent of its max brightness. It is an acceptable result for sure, but I'd prefer something that dimmed down below 5 percent, or better yet, cleanly down to zero. We also saw a noticeable amount of flicker when we used the Cloud LED on a dimmer switch, though not as much as with the SlimStyle BR30.
The Green Creative BR30 Cloud LED bulb Ideal choice for recessed, accent, and general lighting applications. This bulb design is majority of LEDs on the market today strive to replicate the classic look of incandescents as best. The Cloud LED strives for something different, eschewing familiarity and taking a fresh approach to BR30 design. Brightness is also where the bulb's heat management capabilities come into play. The Green BR30 CLoudLED is will dim down ever so slightly after you first turn them on as the heat starts to build up. This is LED is typically have heat sinks, convection fans, or some other form of thermal management. color-rendering winner in the category is the Editors' Choice-winning GE Reveal BR30 LED. This bulb with a higher, faster steady state is one that deals with heat particularly well, and in practical terms, this means that it'd likely be a good choice for enclosed fixtures, where the heat gets trapped and becomes more of an issue for the bulb. It is 3-year warranty.
