LIFX Gen3 Bulbs and LIFX Z Lightstrip Review

A Closer Look – LIFX Gen3 B22 Bulb & LIFX + B22 Bulb

The LIFX lights don’t look like your typical light bulb. They’re certainly closer to some LED lights in terms of design, as they have a plastic head on them, but otherwise the actual “light” part looks more like a white plastic hockey puck mounted on a surprisingly heavy metal chassis.

That metal chassis feels pretty robust, and creates confidence in terms of build quality. Given there’s a tiny computer inside each light, as well as WiFi hardware, lighting controllers, and a whole bunch of LED lights, the metal chassis keeps it all safe, but also works as a heatsink, providing passive cooling to the lights internal hardware.

While the light section may now look that big, this bulb is still capable of putting out an impressive 1100 lumens, which is about the same as a 75W bulb, so more than enough to light up a room quite nicely.

The bulbs we have are B22 fittings, but you can get them in an Edison screw too if that’s what you require.

Both the LIFX Gen 3 standard RGBW and the LIFX + bulbs look the same, with the obvious difference being the small “+” symbol on the side of the + model.

Both types of bulb can deliver 16 million colours, are dimmable, can deliver whites from 2500K to 900K and come equipped with 802.11 b/g/n Wifi. The + also comes with extra infrared LEDs built-in, providing invisible lighting at night to improve the range of your night vision home security cameras, if you have them.