SATCO Lighting S22213 8.5W PAR30S LED, 90 CRI, 4000K, 40 degree Beam Angle, Medium Base, 120V

It puts out 700 lumens on 8.5 watts. That lands in the range of a typical 65W halogen PAR30 rather than a 75W, so in a track or recessed run where output has to match existing halogen heads, expect slightly less flood coverage than a 75W lamp. The 40 degree beam angle spreads the light as a flood rather than a tight spot, which helps it read brighter over a wide surface.

Yes, it's a dimmable lamp. Because it's an 8.5 watt LED on 120 volts, the load is small, so an older incandescent-rated dimmer may not reach its minimum load with only one or two lamps on the circuit and can flicker or drop out at the bottom of the range. On LED retrofits in hospitality or multi-family, a forward or reverse phase LED-rated dimmer is the safer pairing.

4000K is a neutral white, cooler and crisper than the 2700K to 3000K warm white used in residential and hospitality lobbies. It's the common choice for offices, retail, corridors, healthcare, and education where you want a clean white without the yellow cast. If you're matching existing warm-white heads in the same room, mixing in 4000K will read visibly blue next to them, so standardize one temperature per space.

It renders color at 90+ CRI, which matters where merchandise, food, artwork, paint, or skin tone has to look right. Standard-grade LED PAR lamps often sit around 80 CRI, which flattens reds. For retail display, galleries, restaurants, and healthcare exam areas, the 90+ lamp is the one to spec. For a back corridor or storage room, you're paying for rendering you won't see.

A 40 degree beam is a flood. It's the one to use for general track or recessed lighting where fixtures are spaced out and you want overlapping pools with no scalloping, and for washing a wall or a shelf run. If you're accenting a single piece, a sign, or a display case and you want a tight, defined pool with contrast, a narrower spot beam does that job better. For most ceiling-height downlight applications in offices and retail the 40 degree flood is the workhorse.

The lamp body is aluminum and plastic, with the aluminum serving as the heat sink. Because an LED PAR lamp depends on that heat sink shedding heat into open air, it should be run in open or well-ventilated housings unless the fixture and the lamp are both rated for enclosed use. Treat it as a dry/indoor lamp for interior recessed cans and track heads.

Country of origin is Thailand. Procurement officers working under domestic-sourcing requirements should factor that in before writing it into a spec.