SATCO Lighting S11870 12W LED Low Profile Regress Baffle Downlight, 4in, Remote Driver, CCT Selectable, Round Shape, 120V

The S11870 is a recessed-ceiling downlight measuring 1.25 inches high with a 5.06 inch diameter trim, so the housing opening it covers is the 4 inch nominal size and the flange laps roughly half an inch past it on each side. It's a low profile regress baffle unit with a remote driver, meaning the driver sits outside the fixture body rather than stacked behind it, which is what keeps the depth to 1.25 inches for tight plenums and shallow joist bays.

Wet location rated with an IP65 seal, so a shower ceiling or a covered soffit is within rating. Satco lists it as an indoor fixture, so treat covered and protected as the limit rather than open weather exposure. Certification is cETLus, which covers both US and Canadian jobs.

Color temperature is selected at the fixture, with 2700K, 3000K, 3500K, 4000K and 5000K on the switch. For a property manager matching existing openings, that means one part number covers a warm residential corridor at 2700K or 3000K and a commercial back-of-house area at 4000K or 5000K, so you stock one downlight instead of five. Set it before you close up the ceiling, since the selector sits on the fixture.

Title 24 compliant, which is what matters if you're specifying recessed downlights for a California job. It also carries cETLus certification, is FCC compliant, and is RoHS compliant.

850 lumens out of 12 watts, which lands in the same delivered-light range people expect from a standard recessed can while pulling a fraction of the load. Rated life is 50,000 hours. Wattage is fixed at 12W on this model (no wattage selector), so if you need to tune output per space you would be picking a different SKU, not adjusting this one.

Dimmable, running on 120V at 60Hz. It's a direct wire fixture with an integrated LED source, so there's no lamp to buy and no socket adapter involved. The driver is remote, which is where the dimming circuit lives, so keep that driver accessible when you lay out the ceiling.

A regress baffle sets the LED back up inside a baffled cone rather than flush at the ceiling plane. You get less glare looking up at it, which is why it's the usual pick for bedrooms, corridors and any space where people are sitting or lying under the light. The tradeoff is a little more depth than a pure flat panel, though at 1.25 inches the S11870 is still shallow enough for most retrofit bays. If the ceiling cavity is the constraint and glare isn't, a flat wafer is the simpler call.

White is the only finish offered on the S11870, and the base is aluminum, which is also the heat path for an integrated LED. One finish means no option to specify on the order, which simplifies a fleet buy across a building.

Satco publishes both the installation instructions and the full spec sheet for the S11870 as PDFs, linked in the product documentation. Worth pulling before the rough-in, since the remote driver placement and the wiring termination are covered there rather than on the fixture itself.