the colour they end up when dimmed
This has been a problem for me, the controls
have three sections, the colour circle easy to work out what it does, the next slider clearly is brightness, however the bottom slider not really worked out what is does, it seems to have an effect on the colour, it shows % where if colour temperature would expect it to show ºK or something.
Also the bulb seems to work well setting colour temperature, but lighting strip there seems to be a cool and warm LED and moving between cool and warm dims the cool LED and brightens the warm LED and with no defuser you can see two different LED's not a mixture or the light output.
I looked up Magaman 141806 to see the price, and you can get a smart bulb for same price, so why bother? Although Philips WarmGlow seem a better price.
This is all currently witchcraft to me but I'm general elec savvy so will happily have a full read up when I get back, along with the programming aspect as it does appear to allow some flexibility on min and max brightness and a few other things.
Your not the only one, it seems one needs to learn how to use a phone to control lights. I went down the smart bulb/relay route, I could not see the point in dimming switches after all the problems I had with an electronic on/off switch.
The electronic switch to work without a neutral which is normal in the UK to have no neutral at the switch, needs to allow a very small amount of current to flow through the bulb to power the switch, this seems to cause problems with some bulbs, the standard B22d and E27 bulbs seem to work OK, some GU10's seemed to have a little flicker, and the small G9 bulb was a nightmare.
The small bulb shown replaced the original quartz bulb allowing the cover required with quartz bulbs so if they shatter white hot quartz can't fall on your carpet, and with an on/off switch they seemed to work well, but with the electronic switch, two problems, one they would not switch completely off, I can cure that with a load capacitor, but also a shimmer when switched on, fitting on quartz bulb would stop it, but whole idea was to get rid of quartz bulbs, I tried different makes, and looked at the compatibility chart, but all I was doing was gaining a stock of spare bulbs.
My wife order the large bulb shown on the internet, of the 5 one failed so I looked inside, the smoothing capacitor was nearly as big as the small bulb, but the covers which gave the chandelier its look, would no longer fit, lucky wife likes it without covers, they did work, although technically as it does not show lumen or wattage on the bulb, they should not be sold in the UK.
But the original bulbs were around 2.2 watt, and the large bulbs I would guess around 6 watt, and the switch says bulbs should be over 5 watt, I had assumed this was total wattage, but seems no, it is the wattage of each bulb.
It was after this problem getting switch and bulb to match and work together, I moved over to smart bulbs, around 10 to date, but will admit also had problems, one failed completely after around 9 months, and two have developed a flicker after a year, been replaced with colour changing as hardly any difference in price.
We already had Nest Mini's as radio reception in my part of Wales is non existence, so use them to listen to internet radio, but it means with a hand full of coffee to take to wife, no need to put down to switch on lights, I just say hey google turn on landing lights.
Got to the stage were wife is loosing use of her fingers, even standing next to the smart switch, she still asks google to turn on lights, and loads of other things, like how to spell words. Or what the temperature is.
Not sure it is a good thing, I know I should be able to call 999, but never needed to test it.
I would be interested to hear how you get on, if you put
@ericmark in the reply it will auto alert me, same with others putting in their user name means they are alerted.
All best Eric
