SATCO Lighting S11468 8W A21 LED, 3000K, Medium Base, 120V, 80 CRI, Battery Backup

No. The S11468 is not dimmable. On a dimmer it can flicker, buzz, or fail early, and the dimmer itself can be damaged. Put it on a plain switched circuit or an unswitched circuit. If you need dimming in that room, use a different A21 lamp there and place the battery backup bulb in the fixture you actually want lit during an outage.

No. The S11468 is rated for indoor use and damp locations only. A covered corridor, a stairwell, a parking garage under cover, or a bathroom is fine. An open exterior wall pack, a soffit exposed to driven rain, or anything taking direct weather needs a wet-location-rated lamp instead.

Either way. Burning position is universal, so the S11468 can be installed base-up in a recessed can or ceiling fixture, base-down in a table lamp, or horizontal in a wall sconce without affecting operation. That matters on this lamp because the battery and driver ride inside the bulb, and orientation restrictions would otherwise limit where you could put your emergency lighting.

It matches anything already at 3000K, the warm white most commonly specified for apartment interiors, corridors and hospitality spaces. Color is fixed at 3000K, with no CCT-selectable switch on the lamp, so you cannot field-adjust it to 2700K or 4000K. If your property is standardized on 4000K neutral white, this bulb will read noticeably warmer next to it. Color rendering is 80 CRI, standard for general interior lighting.

Not as a 3-way lamp. The S11468 has no three-way function, so in a 3-way socket it will run at a single output level regardless of which position the switch is in, and some 3-way sockets won't energize it in the first switch position at all. Use it in a standard single-level medium base socket.

No. The S11468 is flagged non-compliant for California, so it should not be specified for work in that state. For California properties, select an LED A-lamp that carries a compliant listing. The lamp is FCC compliant for electromagnetic interference, which is a separate matter from the California marking.

220 degrees of beam spread, so the S11468 pushes light out sideways and back past the base rather than only straight down. In an open corridor fixture, a wall sconce or a bare-lamp utility fixture that's what you want from an emergency lamp, because it lights the walking surface and the walls. It's not a directional lamp, so it won't behave like a BR or PAR reflector aimed at a specific spot.

No. The S11468 is not DLC approved, so it will not qualify under a rebate program that requires a DLC listing. If a utility incentive is part of your budget for a retrofit, confirm the program accepts non-DLC lamps before you build it into the numbers.

Average rated life is 15,000 hours. Each lamp draws 0.067 amps at 120 volts, 60 Hz, so a run of them adds very little to a branch circuit compared with the 60 watt incandescents they replace. That's the calculation an MRO buyer makes when converting a corridor or stairwell over to emergency-capable lamps on existing wiring.

The S11468 comes one way: a white-finish A21 lamp, ordered under manufacturer part number S11468. There are no alternate color temperatures, wattages or bulb shapes under that number, so there's nothing to specify beyond the part number itself when you're placing a repeat order for a property.

The base is polycarbonate rather than metal, so it won't corrode or weld itself into a socket the way a brass-shell lamp sometimes does in a damp stairwell. Thread it in hand tight only. Over-torquing a plastic-shell lamp is how you crack it.