SATCO Lighting S49670 18W LED HID Replacement, 80 CRI, 2700K, Type B, Ballast Bypass, Medium Base, Economy Hi-Pro

Yes. The S49670 is a Type B ballast bypass lamp, so it runs on line voltage directly. The existing HID ballast has to be removed or bypassed and the socket wired straight to line, 100V to 277V, 50/60Hz. Leaving the ballast in circuit will damage the lamp.

Yes, it is an enclosed rated lamp, so a sealed jelly jar, vapor tight, or glass enclosed wall pack is fine. It also carries a damp location rating and can be mounted in any burning position, base up, base down, or horizontal.

Only in a damp location, not wet. The rating is damp, which covers covered porches, canopies, parking garages, and sealed outdoor fixtures where the lamp is shielded from direct water. Direct rain exposure calls for a wet location rated lamp instead.

No. This 18W Satco LED HID replacement is non dimmable. On a dimming circuit expect flicker, buzz, or early failure. If the fixture is on a dimmer, either bypass the dimmer or select a dimmable lamp.

2340 lumens at 18 watts, with a 300 degree beam spread so it throws light nearly all the way around rather than in one direction. Satco rates it as a 90W incandescent equivalent. At 2700K it is a warm white, closer to incandescent than the cool white most HID retrofits use, which suits lobbies, corridors, and hospitality spaces.

It is fixed at 2700K with an 80 CRI, and there is no field selectable color temperature, so what you order is what you get. That makes it consistent lamp to lamp across a fleet of fixtures, but it will not blend with 3000K or 4000K product already on site.

Draw is 0.180A at the low end of the voltage range down to 0.065A at the high end, across 100V to 277V. Use the figure matching your actual system voltage when you total up a branch circuit, so a 277V run draws far less current per lamp than a 120V run.

No. This lamp is not DLC listed, so it will not qualify for utility rebate programs that require DesignLights Consortium listing. It is Title 24 compliant and FCC compliant.

Type B, which is what the S49670 is, means you rewire the socket to line voltage and remove the ballast, so there is no ballast left to fail and no ballast losses in the energy number, but it takes an electrician at each fixture. Type A plug and play drops into the existing ballast with no wiring, quicker to install, but you keep the ballast as a failure point. On a retrofit where the ballasts are already aging, Type B is usually the call.

Rated 35,000 average hours. On a dusk to dawn schedule of roughly 12 hours a day that is about eight years of service, which is the argument for bypassing the ballast once rather than servicing HID lamps and ballasts on a short cycle.

The base is aluminum with polycarbonate, and the lens is clear polycarbonate rather than glass, so it tolerates handling on a ladder better than a glass HID lamp. Housing color is white. The aluminum section is the heat path, so keep it clear of insulation or packed debris inside the fixture.