SWITCH Lighting A260FUS27B1-R infinia A19 10 Watt (60-Watt Replacement) 800 Lumens LED Light Bulb, Soft White (2700K), Dimmable

I bought two for my office but they ended up in the laundry area.Why? Well, I purchased them after being very pleased with the quality and brightness of light provided by two Philips 11W (trumpet shaped) LED bulbs installed there. The problem is that they can't be used in the enclosed fixture I tried them in. I have a decent number of them and they do very well where I have them installed.In go the Switch bulbs. And... they just didn't do it for me. They're dimmer than expected for only losing 60lm rated brightness. They're also more yellow than the already yellow Philips bulbs. Too much so.After trying them in a couple other places, I settled on the laundry area. I keep my tea and basic ingredients there- it's just off the kitchen. So the lights there are frequently flipped on and off and CFLs can't keep up. The Infinia does brilliantly well there, easily outpacing the 1200lm CFLs they replaced due to their instant-on nature. I would still prefer a higher color temp but they'll do fine.Everyone has their preferences and I'm sure many will love these everywhere they currently have 60W or equivalent bulbs. I believe there are better alternatives for open fixtures though, such as the Philips mentioned above.Cree also makes an enclosed fixture capable bulb, although they aren't as sure about it as Switch is. Why didn't I try it?My opinion is that the Infinia will have less color shift and brightness degradation than the Cree due to the liquid cooling. The Infinia also has a higher temperature rated electrolytic capacitor to smooth the 120Hz ripple in the light output, a common failure point of any electronic hardware. Finally, the Infinia has the added expense of thermal potting compound around the driver circuit. This should help transfer heat and further increase reliability.All in all, a decent bulb- but I'll stick with the two and buy others for the rest. The Office fixture will keep the Philips bulbs, but without the glass covering them- their light quality is that much better than the old CFLs.Note that all bulbs compared here are rated 2700k, 81-83CRI.

I bought a bunch of these in January of this year to replace several, older bulbs in our house. We wanted to reduce our power usage but still have the look of regular incandescent lights. We are very happy with them, the have the right "warm" color we want and there's almost no delay when turning them on.The other day we noticed a small 2 inch puddle of what we thought was water in our entryway. We wiped it up and didn't think about it again, until the next day when the exact same puddle was back in the same place. I looked up and the puddle was directly underneath an enclosed light fixture. That's when I remembered that these bulbs have a cooling fluid in them. I took the fixture apart and sure enough, it was one of the bulbs leaking some sort of oil from where the glass part meets the white plastic base (it feels like caster oil which makes sense because it won't conduct electricity). I thought the cooling fluid only circulated around the electronics in the base but actually the entire globe of the bulb is filled with oil. It was actually funny when I told some co-workers that I had to replace a light bulb because it was leaking.I can't find anything online about others having this issue so either I just got a fluke (fingers crossed) or there are others that are leaking but people just haven't noticed it yet. The light continued to work as normal while this was happening so if people have an enclosed fixture that doesn't have a hole at the bottom and instead just catches the oil, they may not notice it right away.Otherwise we are very happy with them so far.

I bought the 40 and 60 watt versions. Compared to the comparable soft white Philips bulb, even though both are soft white (around 2600 to 2700K), the Philips light is more pleasing and comparable to the soft white I'm used to (I know this is a subjective judgment, so take it for what it's worth).Have had the Philips for two months controlled by an analog dimmer with no problems whatsoever. The 40 watt SWITCH started to flicker after only a few days use even though I'm using the same model dimmer. It's OK, though, in a non-dimmable lamp. Because I didn't want to have a future problem with the 60 watt version, which has not flickered, though it is a bit touchy with the dimmer (I have to turn it all of the way on with the dimmer, then back it down to the setting I want, whereas the Philips behaves more linearly like a regular incandescent bulb), I returned all of them.