Now that the 2nd generation of LivingColors series of Philips has been placed on the market and I've bought in the meantime an RGB LED light strip for the kitchen, my trial offer from Amazon came very pretty and I opted for the Aura. Developed as a mood light for the living room, the son of man grabbed the part and it was gone, disappeared into the vastness of the youth room. He uses this light now as backlight for the TV.
Meanwhile, there are various versions of the Living Colors, the CLEAR with well 260 lumens and 150 MSRP, the IRIS with well 210 lumens of light output and EIA 130 AURA 120 lumens and EIA 110 BLOOM to 120 lumens and 130 MSRP ranging MINI, MICRO and different versions in a different color (black) and printing (floral).
The prices are still quite high, the light output is compared to the first series, but has improved considerably. Amazon recognized this with the high price and provides these lamps currently much cheaper to (IRIS 85, AURA 70, BLOOM 85, CLEAR 115).
While I have the first series still in a glass version in memory and apparently the CLEAR and IRIS still appear to contain glass or BLOOM even in aluminum, I was a bit surprised about the plastic shell of the aura. This consists of white and milky plastic cover really makes not the wertigsten impression and provides in terms of appearance over other LivingColors lights a minus point represents.
The AURA comes in the dimensions therefore 22 cm diameter and 10 cm deep with consumed during operation max. 8 watts. Thus, you can operate this lamp safely without worrying about your wallet for a long time. Since many other electrical devices in standby consume many times more. The light output is enough for a 20 square meter room absolutely, can be due to the dimming of the light but customize.
There is a incorporated stand, which but not just left to stand stably the light at a predetermined angle on the cable outlet side. The cable is quite thin, and held two wires about 185 cm long. At the end of the cable is a plug in the dimensions ~ installed 7 cm x 3 cm x 3 cm.
The AURA is able to represent 16 million colors. That there is this number of colors is when viewing a color spectrum display may be assumed even if not visible. It is conceivable that the aura that the color change function also creates but individually adjustable, these colors are not natural. It would mean that one. For a complete manual color adjustment of z.Bsp Blue on Blue requires 16 million operating steps. The lasts and lasts ... and would be complete nonsense.
The remote control is approximately in the 2nd generation, 8 cm in diameter and 2 cm high. She feels good in the hand and I! reach all the relevant controls with the thumb. For smaller hands that could however be more difficult and getting used to this form is of course.
The first steps are fairly simple, light and tried, everything works without manual except ...
the color changing function.
For this you need the manual. This really surprised me extremely. While other manuals recently in umpteen different languages come along, the youngest Ex. Was a guide for a curler with 2 pages in German and 72? Pages in 20 other languages, this guide comes folded in 2 sides and folds in 8 or 16 pages therefore. Here are all! Languages of the world covered, the manual consists of 9 operating steps and comes as a drawing. This is from an ecological perspective really positive note and relatively understandable, the whole addition.
The color change function is then to be taken from the last two operating steps and quite honestly, (push down and slowly turn wheel by 360 ° and press to) I would not have found without guidance. All in all, the manual self-explanatory and has probably complicated for some because they are accustomed to reading a manual and mostly angry about how incomprehensible they were written or translated.
Now I've written quite a lot, but I hope in spite of verbosity Was this review helpful.
Conclusion:
The aura is regarded as a single product really is not bad, of course you compare it with other LivingColors lights, they come not as wertig over. But it is under consideration of their size and light output really the least expensive (see above) under the LivingColors lights.
But I would tend to 4 stars but because of the lower value to other versions of the EIA and the selling price to 3 stars, because of the exemplary and understandable operating instructions and the simple operating concept.
However, the son of man operates the AURA and is totally excited because he has just compared to other versions do not. It is 5 star!
