#HUE GO REVIEW UPGRADE#
The other innovations of the second generation are really great, but an upgrade would probably only be worthwhile if you used the Bluetooth function frequently. My conclusion is clear-cut: In terms of brightness, I would have wished for a greater increase. Only in scenes such as “reading”, “fill up energy” or “concentration” a difference can be noticed between the two generations. In many light scenes, especially in color settings, there is hardly any difference to be seen. What sounds like a big difference doesn’t turn out so noticeable in practice. At the end of the day, this is significantly more than with the first generation Hue Go, where the manufacturer has specified up to three hours.īrightness: the new Hue Go is supposed to be almost twice as bright, instead of 300 lumens it will now be 520 lumens. This allows the cable to be routed to the front and back, which gives us even more options when placing the lamp.īattery life: in the scene of candle flickering, up to 18 hours of battery life are included.
There are, no doubt, political aspects to adopting European standards as well.Bluetooth connection: While the previous Hue Go could only be controlled outside the ZigBee network using the button on the back, allowing the user to select seven preset scenes, the second generation of the Hue Go has a Bluetooth connection and can be fully controlled on the move with the Philips Hue Bluetooth app.Ĭable management: instead of being located on the bottom, the power plug input on the new Hue Go is located on the side. These results could be adopted in the UK, but there is a question mark over whether the results for a left-hand-drive car are also valid for UK cars. The process is tortuous because each car needs to be tested both electronically and mechanically in order to ensure they comply with the regulations and the results approved by the various legal authorities. Other countries are in the process of accepting them.
In Germany 70 per cent of the car parc can use them, and half in France. They are illegal for use in the UK because the ECE spec requires a filament bulb, but in some European countries on some cars that’s not the case. I would recommend this to a friend Helpful (0) Unhelpful (0) Soothing Verified Purchase Posted 4 years ago. Pretty cool that you can unplug and take it anywhere When unplugged the battery life of mine are at a little over an hour after owning them for a couple of years. You don’t have to search online for long for an H7 bulb before you are offered a retrofit LED version. Hue Go is still one of my favorite Philips Hue products. Once fitted into the headlight, performance was woeful, with faulty geometry on one bulb. On initial start, both bulbs smoked significantly and would likely wreck any headlamp reflector. This Aceparts lamp was tested to see how much you needed to compromise performance to get that blue/white gas discharge look in the headlamp. The results were converted to percentages to get an overall ranking.
#HUE GO REVIEW PLUS#
We also checked the bulbs for ECE R112 beam compliance plus maximum output and geometry. To balance this adjustment-dependent rating, we measured the area at more than 30 lux, beam length above 3 lux and the maximum brightness. The results were combined to give our figure of merit (FOM). We measured light at 50 and 75 metres ahead of our test Volkswagen Passat headlamp on low beam.
How we tested themĮvery bulb was put through our standard set of assessments. We also looked at where the tech is going by assessing the latest LED replacements for the ageing halogen systems. With the very limited number of firms capable of operating at the highest level, we also looked at a standard bulb to see how far the tech has come and the compromises needed to get that xenon white/blue look in your headlamps. So which has embraced the latest technology the best? We enlisted the help of Philips’ light tunnel in Aachen, Germany, via Microsoft Teams to find out.
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