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Feit Electric’s bulbs offer brilliant color quality at an affordable price and work with a wide range of dimmers. They’re also easy to find in stores, and they come with a five-year warranty.
The Feit daylight bulb produces a white, cool light that’s suitable for kitchens or offices, and in our tests it stood out from the competition by offering better color accuracy and more-even dimmability.
Feit Electric’s Enhance 60W Replacement A19 Dimmable LED Light Bulbs in both soft white (2,700 K) and daylight (5,000 K) performed better than any other bulb in our tests, with a high color rendering index (CRI) and an impressive dimming range that didn’t jump or flicker, or induce headaches. They’re widely available at a reasonable price, too, and they have one of the longest warranties we’ve seen for LED bulbs.
They produce rich, realistic light with a 90-plus CRI. Simply put, Feit makes some of the best-looking LED bulbs we’ve ever tested. They can make the colors in your home pop just enough for you to feel like you’re in an HD-quality version of reality, or as if you had lightly dialed up the contrast on the camera filter of your eyes. The Feit daylight bulb made our fruit bowl look crisp and clean, neither too blue-tinged nor blown out. Even the tiny buds on our broccoli florets were nicely defined, while the white stripes on our graffiti eggplant stood out against its fuschia skin. The Feit soft white bulb worked similar wonders on our produce, leaving lemons and apples looking just like slightly golden versions of themselves.
They also have the best dimming range we’ve seen on any LED light bulbs. As you reduce the brightness on the Feit bulbs, they respond just as you might expect them to if they were incandescents. No buzzing or flickering, or sudden jumps in brightness, as you find with lower-quality LED bulbs—just a smooth, gradual dimming arc. Jim Shapiro, Feit’s director of engineering and quality, told us that Feit factors in the dimming arc from the beginning of the design process and considers it an essential function of any LED light bulb. The company also tests the dimming arc of every individual Feit LED bulb on the production line as a quality-assurance step before the bulb goes out the door for sale. That attention to detail made a noticeable difference in our tests and our overall living experience with the bulbs.
They’re surprisingly affordable, and they have one of the best warranties around. You can usually find a four-pack of these Feit bulbs for around $13, or about $3.25 per bulb. That’s fairly average for LED light bulbs overall, and the cost per bulb continues to drop when you buy in higher quantities. The value gets even better when you factor in Feit’s five-year warranty, too. Some cheaper bulbs can save you about 50¢ each, but most of them come with only three years of coverage, or even just a one-year warranty; as a result, you could end up buying new bulbs every year and a half or so, which means more money and more waste for a lesser lighting experience.
They’re also more efficient than many other LED bulbs, and they’re more compliant with local energy laws. LED bulbs in general use very little energy to produce a lot of bright light. But the Feit LED bulbs are some of the most efficient bulbs around, using less than 9 watts of energy and qualifying for an Energy Star rating. They also comply with local energy laws, including Title 20 in California. You can find cheaper bulbs from brands such as Amazon Basics and GE, but most of them don’t meet all the state- and federal-level efficiency expectations.
If you need bigger or smaller bulbs—or even other color temperatures—Feit has you covered. Though we used the 60-watt-equivalent, 800-lumen bulbs as our standard point of comparison, we recognize that you might want something more or less bright than that. The Feit bulbs are also available in 100-watt-equivalent/1,600 lumens, 75-watt-equivalent/1,100 lumens, and 40-watt-equivalent/450 lumens versions, all of which offer the same color quality, dimming capabilities, and warranty. If you can’t decide between soft white or daylight, the Feit bulbs also come in a slightly more neutral bright white, 3,000 K temperature. If you prefer a clear “Edison-style” bulb where you can see the faux-incandescent filaments inside, Feit makes a soft white filament LED bulb, too.
