What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
The light output is excellent. They are super bright and what sold me on an led conversion in my workshop! If you care about the environment these are the bulbs.
My kitchen light fixture has 3 bulbs. Other fixtures with 48 bulbs are in the garage and laundry room. I have these in a couple of places and they are great replacements for fluorescent tubes, although a bit pricey.
Luckily the 8 pack replaces the exact amount of tubes in my kitchen. This 8 pack is a better value than the 2 packs if you need the quantity. They work well and they have no mercury!
Cons
It's annoying having to make trips to the ups store to return these constantly. Sadly, the bulbs are not replaceable.
The bulbs are not compatible with any particular ballast. I have other brands like cree led t12 tubes that work great with no modifications needed. The color is not too cool, which my elderly parent prefers. The lumen is 1800 lumens, a full third less... Read More
Highlights
Quality
If you are doubting these philips will work with the ballasts you got or not if your light fixture is 1020 years its close to g... Read More
Also stopped a little humming i had with the fluorescent lights
Price
Even though the price changes often its still worth the higher price that i paid for them
The price was the same but amazon had them in stock with quick delivery
Shipping
Notice they are almost all negative due to shipping issues with broken bulbs not the actual functionality of the bulbs
Packaging/appearance
The packaging from amazon was pretty bad
They need to do a better job of packaging and shipping
What i like name brand rather than some unknown chicom cutesie name excellent packaging really designed to protect the product... Read More
Competitiveness
Just put it into my t12 fixture and they lit right up a little brighter than my 40w tubes
The lamp on the left is an led lamp of 5500k temperature for comparison
Overview
- How are reviewers describing this item?
broken, fluorescent, easy, bright and old. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 506 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 2 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I got tired of the fluorescent tubes
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
They never all worked at the same time
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
They go dim they flicker and they stop working after few month
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I had to keep replacing the tubes and i even tried to replace the ballast
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I dont know how to return one and get half credit since i burned out one of the tubes
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In the first application i checked the ballast in the fixture since philips recommended doing that
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
At the second location i installed two replacement lamps that worked then went to another fixture with tubes from package 2 of 2 and when i installed it without checking the ballasts in either case i burned out the tube
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It went from bright for a couple of seconds to very low output
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