SATCO Lighting S9639 16.5W, LED BR40, 3000K, 103 degree Beam Angle, Medium Base, 120V, Dimmable

No. The S9639 BR40 is an open rated lamp, so it needs a can or fixture that breathes. Sealed or fully enclosed trims trap heat around the driver and shorten the life of an LED that isn't rated for it. If your cans have gasketed shower trims or glass domes, look for a lamp specifically marked enclosed rated instead.

Damp location rated and listed for indoor use, so a bathroom, a kitchen over a sink, or a covered interior area is fine. It is not wet rated, so keep it out of anywhere it can take direct water or weather, like an open porch or an eave with blowing rain. The lens is frosted, which softens the hotspot in a bath fixture.

That's the swap it's built for. 16.5 watts of LED replacing an 85 watt incandescent BR40, putting out 1200 lumens at 3000K on a standard medium screw base at 120 volts. It threads into the same socket with no wiring change. Draw drops to 0.138 amps, so a circuit that was loaded with old floods frees up considerably when you relamp a whole building.

No. The S9639 is non-compliant with California Title 20, so it can't be sold into California. Satco's listed Title 20 alternate for it is the S8580. Order that model for California work and keep the S9639 for jobs in other states.

3000K is warm white, a step cooler than the 2700K of a classic incandescent and clearly warmer than 4000K neutral. Color rendering is 80 CRI. This one is fixed color, not field selectable, so every lamp out of the box lands on the same 3000K. If your existing cans are running 2700K, mixing in 3000K will read slightly whiter side by side, so relamp a full room or a full run rather than spot swapping.

Rated at 25,000 average hours. On a common commercial schedule of about 12 hours a day that's roughly 5.7 years per lamp, which is the number that decides whether relamping a stairwell or a high lobby ceiling is worth a lift rental. It's a big change from an 85 watt incandescent flood, which is the lamp it replaces.

No. It's a single-level lamp, not a three-way, so in a three-way socket it will either stay at full output or only light on certain switch positions. For a three-way table or floor lamp you need a lamp specifically built as three-way.

No. The S9639 is not DLC approved, so it won't qualify under a rebate program that requires a listing on the DesignLights Consortium qualified products list. Budget the retrofit without that incentive, or take the question to your utility since many residential and small commercial screw-base programs run off Energy Star rather than DLC.

Burning position is universal, so base up in a downlight, base down in a pendant, or horizontal in a sconce all work. Nothing about the orientation changes the rating.

The S9639 is FCC compliant, so the driver's emissions are within the federal limits. That's the check an institutional spec usually asks for near AV, paging, or two-way radio equipment.