I would not have believed since 10 days these tea lights burning every evening 3 - 4 hours and still no end in sight. Let's see, when I have to replace the batteries. The first two days the light was very bright, almost a little too much and the flicker extreme. This has normalized after 2 nights. The light is pleasant and they flicker only very slightly. I think that's perfect. I have it in dark red glasses from Iittala and I think they look very good. Anyway, the glasses no longer sooting :-) that was really annoying with the normal tea lights.