Dimmable E14 Candle Lamp for a Bathroom Pendant at 4000K

A lamp for a bathroom fitting: a dimmable candle lamp, which most decorative LED candles are not.

Bathroom lighting is the one part of a house where getting it wrong is a safety matter rather than a taste matter, and it is sold almost entirely on photographs. Every listing here states the zone the fitting may be installed in, the IP rating with both digits explained, the colour rendering index, the lumen output and the efficacy in lumens per circuit watt. If a fitting is not suitable above a bath we say so on the page you are buying it from. If a mirror is backlit and will not light your face, we say that too.

Specification

• Zone: outside the zones only, which means more than 600mm from the edge of a bath or shower and more than 600mm from a basin tap. We would still fit an IP44 product in a bathroom, and this one is, but the regulations do not require it here. A lamp takes the rating of the fitting it goes into, which is the thing to remember: an IP65 fitting with any lamp in it is still IP65, and an IP20 fitting with an expensive lamp in it is still IP20
• IP rating: the fitting decides, not the lamp
• Dimensions: standard E14 envelope
• Light output: 470 lumens at 82 lumens per circuit watt
• Colour temperature: 4000K neutral white
• Colour rendering: CRI 90, with R9 above 50, which is a good deal better than the eighties that this category usually offers and is enough for everything except colour matching makeup
• Dimming: dimmable on a trailing edge dimmer, to 5 per cent without flicker. Most decorative LED lamps are not dimmable at all and do not say so on the front of the box
• Electrical: 230V, integral driver
• Fire rating: not applicable to a wall or surface mounted fitting
• Standards: BS EN 60598 for luminaires, BS EN 62471 photobiological safety at the exempt group, BS EN 55015 for electromagnetic emissions, UKCA and CE marked
• Weight: approximately 0.04 kilograms
• Guarantee: three years
• Colour temperature: 4000K neutral white
• Rated life: 25,000 hours to L80, meaning 80 per cent of the original output still remains at that point, which is the honest way to quote it
• Switching cycles: 50,000, which matters in a bathroom more than anywhere because the light goes on and off a dozen times a day
• Pack: one

What arrives

• the lamp or lamps
• a datasheet by download

Installation

Nothing to install. If it is going into a sealed fitting, let the fitting cool before you open the gasket and check the gasket seats cleanly when you close it.

Choosing between this and the alternatives

The cheapest useful upgrade to an existing bathroom is a set of CRI 97 lamps in the fittings that are already there. It costs a tenth of what new fittings cost and it changes how a face looks in the mirror more than new fittings would, because colour rendering is what that job depends on. Check the lamp is dimmable if the circuit is dimmed, and check the cap type, and there is nothing else to get wrong.