Yeah, I have at least half a dozen clients waiting on fully dimmable retrofit solutions and it seems like every other day I get a
call from them because some Phillips or Cree dealer made a cold
call and has no real idea what "fully dimmable" means and gets their hopes up over a $40 or $50 lamp, and then they
call me wondering why I am trying to talk them into $1500 a piece units to do the same thing. I tell them to get get a sample and sure enough it does fine from 100%-20% and then BLINK its gone.
It is just really annoying having to deal with that all the time. Then I have to start the selling process all over again. I wish electrical distributor and sales people would stay in their residential/industrial world and out of the theater/
house of worship world.
No disrespect toward you. I am sure you are awesome at what you do. But when someone actually makes a fully dimmable
LED retrofit lamp, I will be a happy, happy man. But I consider myself up on what is in the market, and I know that such a thing is at least a couple of years away.
Until then, I tell my clients that their choices are
conventional units and dimmers or an all
in one LED unit replacement.
I also know you can
play with
dimmer curves to smooth things out, but I have still never seen an
LED retrofit lamp that doesn't go BLINK at the end of its dimming curve and for
house lights that is VERY annoying.
Cheers mate!