Distracted Again By Color Changing LEDs at Home Depot

Yesterday I put these two boxes of Home Depot LED can light inserts, on a VISA card. Surely they are awful for my needs, and will be returned.

A customer in a 1970 home with dozens of can lights loaded with dim 65 watt incandescent floods, will not be served by either of these. Other options are being employed, the low-glare doubling of illumination with Commercial Electric 74207 set at 3000°K, and in the main, simple bulb replacement with Maxlite Dimmable LED BR30 Lamp 11W 3000K 11BR30DLED30/G2 . Please pay heed to this link for good BR30 bulbs, 3000°K. Stores, strangely, stock BR30 LEDs with only the ugly 2700°K and 4000°K. I bother a reader with this 5-colors contraption review, for referral to better choices. Call these "5/ 6 inch five colors," and "4 inch five colors."

Color changing, the boxes say. Five choices: 
Warm White (2700°K)
Soft White (3000°K)
Neutral White (3500°K)
Bright White (4000°K)
Daylight (5000°K)

Each box costs $24.97 for four can inserts.
1002 936 217, UPC 93690 56333 is the larger, for 5 and 6 inch cans. 700 lumens, 9 watts.
1002 936 200, UPC 93690 56331 is the smaller, for 4 inch cans. 650 lumens, 8.5 watts.

4 inch LED tied to test stand LHS.

65 watt incandescent at test stand RHS.

A color setting must be chosen before installation, and most happily I imagine, would be 3000°K. The ugly blue colors of absence of light in early dawn, are generally unnatural and gloomy.

At stand RHS, swap in newly-received Maxlite Dimmable LED BR30 Lamp 11W 3000K 11BR30DLED30/G2 .

5/ 6 inch five colors 3000°K at LHS vs. the BR30. See that BR30 is brighter, with higher color temperature (prettier). The BR30 has a smaller dimming range, but is clearly the lower-cost, better choice.

BR30 still at RHS, swap in Commercial Electric 74207 set at 3000°K, at LHS. See that the 74207 is prettier color perhaps 3200°K, has better dimming range, costs a bit more, but is a better choice despite being a bit odd with its large very low glare lens. Learn to like the color rendition of 74207 with alternating 2500°K and 4000°K diodes edge tape maybe 3200°K average. I don't know if I have done right for my customer, thinking to cheaply finish replacement of awful 65 watt incandescents in another two dozen can lights not configured to accept trim springs. The retrofit then involves positioning and screw-attaching C-clips . The customer will decide whether I use the BR30, or more of the big low-glare 74207. I will add here, a report of that decision.

Where simple replacement of 65 watt incandescent flood bulbs, with BR 30 LED is mentioned as maybe inferior to more-difficult swap of 74207 big plates, find encouragement of the simpler choice in this older set of comparisons: MaxLite BR30 vs. Other Lights .