SATCO Lighting S9496 6.5W, LED MR16 LED, 3000K, 40 degree Beam Angle, GU5.3 Base, 12V AC/DC

It is a 50 watt halogen replacement, putting out 500 lumens on 6.5 watts. Swapping a room of 50W halogens for these cuts the load from 50 watts a lamp to 6.5, so a transformer that was near capacity has a lot of headroom afterward. One thing to check on a full-building swap: many magnetic and electronic low voltage transformers have a minimum load, and a few 6.5W lamps on a transformer sized for halogen can fall under it and flicker.

Yes, the S9496 is an enclosed rated lamp, so a sealed or airtight recessed housing is fine. It is also damp location rated, which covers a covered porch, a soffit, or a bathroom. Damp is not wet, so keep it out of anywhere exposed to direct water or spray.

The S9496 is a fixed 3000K warm white with 80 CRI. It is not color selectable, so what you order is what you get, which is what you want when standardizing a floor or a whole property on one color. 3000K is the standard warm white used in hospitality and residential; if your existing lamps are 2700K they will read noticeably yellower next to these, and 4000K will read cooler and bluer. Mixing them in the same room or the same run of track is visible.

No on both counts. The S9496 is not DLC listed, so it will not qualify under utility rebate programs that require DLC listing, and it is not BAA compliant, which rules it out where a federal or federally funded project carries Buy American Act requirements. It is FCC compliant. For a government or federally funded procurement, the BAA status is the one to settle before it goes on the requisition.

80 CRI is the standard commercial benchmark and it is fine for corridors, lobbies, offices, and general hospitality lighting. Where it falls short is anywhere color judgment is the point: fabric and paint retail, gallery and artwork lighting, food display, or a showroom. Those applications usually call for 90+ CRI, and the S9496 is not that lamp.

Burning position is universal, so it runs in any orientation: base up in a recessed can, aimed down from a track head, or pointed up as an uplight in landscape or cove work. No derating and no restriction on how you aim it.

It is lensed with a clear lens and a gray housing. The clear lens keeps the beam defined at 40 degrees rather than diffusing it, so you get a cleaner edge on the pool of light than a frosted lamp gives.

No. It is a single output 6.5 watt lamp at 500 lumens, not three-way. Three-way switching is not something MR16 lamps do; light level is controlled by dimming the circuit instead, and this lamp is dimmable.