SATCO Lighting S11862 15W, CCT Selectable, LED Direct Wire Downlight, Gimbaled, 6in Round, Remote Driver, Black

The S11862 is a 6 inch round downlight with a 7.48 inch overall trim diameter and 2.17 inch height, so it covers a standard 6 inch nominal recessed opening and mounts recessed in the ceiling. Plan your plenum depth around the 2.17 inch fixture height, and remember the driver is remote, so you need room nearby for it as well.

Color is selectable on the fixture itself: 2700K, 3000K, 3500K, 4000K, and 5000K, all in the one part number. For a property manager matching a floor of existing fixtures, that means you stock one SKU and dial each unit to whatever the rest of the building is running. Wattage is fixed at 15W, so the only field switch is color, not output.

Damp location rated and IP42, so a bathroom ceiling, a covered porch soffit, or a corridor with humidity is fine. It is an indoor rated fixture, so keep it out of anywhere it takes direct water or spray. IP42 means it stops objects over 1mm and dripping water at an angle, not a shower head or a hose down.

It's California T24 listed, which is what an inspector on a California residential or commercial job is looking for on a recessed luminaire. It's also cETLus listed for both US and Canadian use, and FCC compliant.

Yes, the fixture dims. It runs on 120V line voltage at 60Hz, so the control side is a standard forward or reverse phase wall dimmer, not a 0-10V low voltage control. Because the driver is remote, the dimmer works through that driver, so match the dimmer to the driver you install with it.

The gimbal lets you aim the light after it's installed, so you can wash a wall, hit artwork, or angle away from a sloped ceiling instead of shooting straight down. On a retail buildout or a lobby, that's the difference between one trim type covering both general and accent lighting. If every fixture on the job is straight downlight over open floor, a fixed round trim does the same work.

Rated at 50,000 hours. Running 12 hours a day, that is roughly 11 years before it reaches rated life, which is why an MRO or multi-family buyer standardizes on these instead of relamping cans on a ladder every couple of years. The LED is integrated, so there is no lamp to change; at end of life you replace the fixture.

The housing is aluminum, which carries heat away from the LED better than a plastic trim and holds up in a commercial ceiling. The S11862 part number is the black finish; that is the only finish on this model number, so if the job calls for white you order the matching white model rather than this one.

Satco publishes spring installation instructions for the S11862 at assets.satco.com, and the full photometric and electrical spec sheet at media.satco.com/specsheets/pdf/S11862.pdf. The spring reference tells you the housing holds in the ceiling on mounting springs, so an electrician should confirm the ceiling material will take that before cutting the hole.