We love these! They perform as advertised but please ready my ENTIRE review.
We purchased the warm color and, after about 20 minutes up and down the ladder removing our ballast and rewiring per the instructions, were rewarded with a reborn, instant-on fixture with exceptionally diffused and even light. Our kitchen has taken on a new and improved look and we‘re now trying to re-home"our collection of T8 fluorescent tubes. We are very happy with our purchase and the results.
Now for some very important information: When I purchased these there was a warning from Amazon that they are frequently returned. The video review that is posted as part of the listing is the reason for the frequent returns. If you’re replacing fluorescent tubes and your installation takes 30 seconds like in the video, you have installed these incorrectly and will get proper operation for just a few minutes and then they will dim or flicker or go off. Why? The ballast and starter in the fixture must be bypassed. In other words, there is some simple, minor wiring adjustments that must be made for these to work properly. These are wired directly from the AC coming into the fixture with the common connected to all wires at one end of the fixture and the neutral connected to all the wires at the opposite end. I am confident that the actual customer rating of these would be 4.7 or higher were it not for those reviewing the product after improperly installing the tubes without reading the listing or the directions and without doing the ballast bypass.