electronupdate
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A video review of an IKEA LEDARE 400 lm at this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuLB6Bie0rk
The $/lm and lm/watt is not class leading and the power factor is far from unity. Ikea seems to have more focused on quality of light. The bulb had low flicker and a higher than normal CRI (>87).
Price was below $10.00. Bulb is relatively attractive when powered off (and within the sphere of Ikea's world that's _very_ important).
This makes sense. Ikea nails the retail part of equation (less than $10.00) and the focused on interior design aspects (light quality, CRI, bulb attractiveness).
Within my engineering frame-of-mind $/lm and lm/watt are my key touchstones... however it's easy to forget the 'soft' retail aspects and what it takes to make a compelling market sucessful products.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuLB6Bie0rk
The $/lm and lm/watt is not class leading and the power factor is far from unity. Ikea seems to have more focused on quality of light. The bulb had low flicker and a higher than normal CRI (>87).
Price was below $10.00. Bulb is relatively attractive when powered off (and within the sphere of Ikea's world that's _very_ important).
This makes sense. Ikea nails the retail part of equation (less than $10.00) and the focused on interior design aspects (light quality, CRI, bulb attractiveness).
Within my engineering frame-of-mind $/lm and lm/watt are my key touchstones... however it's easy to forget the 'soft' retail aspects and what it takes to make a compelling market sucessful products.