What light bulb for computer room ceiling light?

Just to add, the variable colour temp is not a simple jump from warm to cold. It's a graduated process. I haven't counted but I'd estimate 10 or 12 steps.

The reason I bought these in the first place was a problem with a conventional but old wall dimmer switch. Rather than mess about with that, I replaced it with a straight dual-gang on/off, and dim via the remote-dimmable LEDs. Though the bulbs were a bit pricey, I did save about £40 by not buying a new dimmer switch, and replaced 240w (60w x 4) of incandescrnts with these LEDs at about 32w (8-ish x 4).

Do you remember the make of those bulbs Saracen?

http://www.batterylogic.co.uk/lighti...nd-control.asp

It's the first three or so I'm talking about, that change colour temp, not the ones further down that change colour.

This is also the supplier I used, and have used for batteries and chargers for quite a while. My experience of them has been highly positive.

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Originally Posted by Saracen

http://www.batterylogic.co.uk/lighti...nd-control.asp

It's the first three or so I'm talking about, that change colour temp, not the ones further down that change colour.

This is also the supplier I used, and have used for batteries and chargers for quite a while. My experience of them has been highly positive.

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Thank you

I had no idea we had remote controlled led bulbs out there.. I'm peculiar if you use the app or the stand alone remote control? I'm more interested in using the app of course, since that would allow more people to adjust the led lighting freely and without searching for the remote control all the time, but the controller feels looks a bit fishy and I'm not really sure where power comes from and how reliable it is

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Originally Posted by Johna

I had no idea we had remote controlled led bulbs out there.. I'm peculiar if you use the app or the stand alone remote control? I'm more interested in using the app of course, since that would allow more people to adjust the led lighting freely and without searching for the remote control all the time, but the controller feels looks a bit fishy and I'm not really sure where power comes from and how reliable it is

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Power for the remote comes from a couple of AAA batteries. We've been using them for months, maybe a year, and yet to have any reliability problems. But I guess it's still early days.

As for physical remote versus app, I guess that's down to indivudual circumstances. For me, the app route isn't right. Neither the wife nor I have, or want, smartphones and I don't want to lug around, then power up, a 10" tablet in order to dim lights. ;)

Each remote does allow you to control four "groups" of bulbs, and every bulb can be controlled by multiple remotes. I keep a remote by my lounge chair, and can therefore switch up to four groups of bulbs, wuthoyt picking up the remote of even looking at it. It works for us.

We also don't want anyone else to be able to control the lights, but obviously, YMMV.

AAA are totally fine. For a second I got the impression there is some sort of external source, nvm. I've been thinking about adding some sort of dimmer lighting installation to my man cave, especially for my gaming mode for quite some time. One of my buddies is an electrician with **snipped out by moderator *** and every here and there I ask for advice about my silly ideas and the suggestion here was to go for a bit more complex lighting installation by adding extra led lighting along i.e. skirting or behind screens or flooring lighting & etc. Been browsing quite a lot recently and I'm seriously thinking if I should "get the best" and plan a grande lighting installation or simply grab dimmer bulbs and do something (way)simpler on my own. Would be great to have a "show your cave" thread but couldn't find one here