A side by side comparison of the Luminara LED candle and the cheaper Premier dancing flame version.
These two LED candles emulate the physical movement of a flame by deflecting a flame shaped plastic scoop magnetically in front of an LED light source.
As you'll see in the review they are very different in quality of effect. The Luminara has a lovely golden white flame colour and subtle movement, while the Premier candle has a rather odd pinkish white coloured flame that physically clatters off the sides of it's mounting making it quite a noisy unit. This isn't just one defective unit, I got an older version last year with a hideous yellow LED and it was just as noisy.
If Premier specified a much richer golden white colour for the LED and just did something simple like adding a series resistor to the flame deflection coil so it wasn't so violent they would improve their product appearance greatly. They could also reduce the current through the LED to make it more subtle and increase battery life.
I like to take stuff to bits and hack it to make it better, but sadly the Premier candles are made of actual wax which is almost impossible to remove the glued-in electronic base from without breaking. I don't think people would mind if they just used plastic bodies like the new outdoor Luminara does.
These two LED candles emulate the physical movement of a flame by deflecting a flame shaped plastic scoop magnetically in front of an LED light source.
As you'll see in the review they are very different in quality of effect. The Luminara has a lovely golden white flame colour and subtle movement, while the Premier candle has a rather odd pinkish white coloured flame that physically clatters off the sides of it's mounting making it quite a noisy unit. This isn't just one defective unit, I got an older version last year with a hideous yellow LED and it was just as noisy.
If Premier specified a much richer golden white colour for the LED and just did something simple like adding a series resistor to the flame deflection coil so it wasn't so violent they would improve their product appearance greatly. They could also reduce the current through the LED to make it more subtle and increase battery life.
I like to take stuff to bits and hack it to make it better, but sadly the Premier candles are made of actual wax which is almost impossible to remove the glued-in electronic base from without breaking. I don't think people would mind if they just used plastic bodies like the new outdoor Luminara does.
Luminara is expensive.
So worth it!
Both candles seem to have a purple LASER built in that shoots straight up. Another video of yours suggests how to tame the Premier flame from clicking about, good idea to make a better effect, Thanks.
It does the job. Excellent product.
But the other one is too yellow. The first LED's that came out were too cool white, now they are going overboard and making them too yellow.
Is anyone really staring at your candles that hard to notice if they are real? You have to be one judgemental pain in arse to be like that. Lol.
Luminara, in Korean, means Lumi Land — Land of Illumination. Gee.
Omggggg xDDD the way you said its just an plastic flame wobbling around with an LED in front of it.
im dying from laughter thats the best sentence everrrrr
I didn't notice the blue lights until you started talking about them and was hoping that you did that to point out the flame. I can't buy these now. The blue line ruins it. Do you know of any other flameless candles that don't have any line shooting up like that?
This is a well-thought out review. Very detailed and informative. Thank you so much!
Simple but quality.
By the way, the Luminara candles that take 2 "D" batteries have a 500 hour run life. Using the 5-hour timer, that should last 100 days.
The first time I saw these candles in the shop, I thought, "what are they burning candles in here for?" Upon a closer look, I couldn't believe these were mechanical. Couldn't believe the realism! I bought one for myself on sale at another store but it turned out to be a knockoff brand. Like in your video above, it created a bouncy shadow flame on the wall, just didn't look nearly realistic. I gave it away to someone at work!
I've just bought the Premier one, it's ok, but you have to see it from a little distance to look more realistic. Also, all the dancing flame candles make a shadow on the wall where the flame is because the 'flame' isn't actually lit. But apart from that even the cheaper Premier candle is a nice alternative to a real one if you have inquisitive toddlers or pets.
Thank you for this video.