SATCO Lighting S9641 16.5W, LED BR40, 5000K, 103 degree Beam Angle, Medium Base, 120V, Dimmable

No. The S9641 is an open rated lamp, so it should only be used in fixtures that allow air to move around the bulb. A sealed or gasketed enclosed can traps heat and will shorten the life of a lamp that isn't rated for enclosure. If your cans are enclosed, you need a lamp specifically marked enclosed-rated.

Only if the rest of your lamps are also 5000K. This one is a fixed 5000K daylight color, not color-selectable, so it reads noticeably cooler and bluer next to 2700K or 3000K lamps in the same room. For a retrofit across a property, standardize a whole space at a time rather than swapping one can. Color rendering is 80 CRI, typical for general area lighting rather than retail display.

It carries a damp location rating and is listed for indoor use, so a covered soffit, bathroom, or kitchen can where the lamp never sees direct water is fine. Do not put it in a wet-location application like an exposed exterior fixture or directly in a shower spray zone; that calls for a wet-rated lamp.

No. This BR40 is flagged non-compliant for California, so it should not be specified for jurisdictions enforcing that requirement. For a California job, source a lamp carrying the California compliance marking instead.

The lamp is dimmable on a 120V 60Hz circuit. Older incandescent-only dimmers often flicker or drop out at the low end with LED loads because the LED draws only 0.138 amps, far less than the dimmer's minimum load. If you're keeping the existing control, use an LED-rated dimmer and check the load count on the circuit.

103 degrees is a wide flood spread, which is what you want for general ceiling wash in kitchens, corridors, lobbies, and open offices where cans are spaced out and you want even coverage with no scallops. It is the wrong choice for accenting artwork or a feature wall; that needs a narrow spot beam. The frosted lens further softens the edge of the beam.

Rated at 25,000 average hours. Run 12 hours a day, that's roughly 5.7 years before rated life, so common-area cans that used to get annual incandescent swaps move to a much longer cycle. Buy one spec across the whole building so future replacements match in color and output.

It is not a three-way lamp. Screwed into a 3-way socket it will operate at a single output level on whichever contact positions energize it, rather than stepping through low, medium, and high. If you need three-level switching, order a lamp built as three-way.

It is not DLC approved, so it won't qualify under rebate programs that require a DLC listing. It is FCC compliant for electromagnetic interference. If the rebate is driving the purchase, confirm whether your utility's program accepts non-DLC screw-base lamps before committing to a bulk order.

Any orientation works. The lamp is rated for universal burning position, so base-up in a downlight, base-down in an uplight, or horizontal in a sconce are all acceptable.