The Ring Smart Light Bulb has 800 lumens, which is really nice. An estimated energy cost for a year is $1.02 to run this thing. That’s going off the estimation that you are running it only three hours a day at 11 cents per kilowatt. And it lasts up to 22 years—that’s huge. Light appearance is 3,500 kelvin—which is going to be a bright light. Energy used is going to be 8.5 watts. The cool thing about this Ring LED light bulb is that it’s plastic. So you don’t have to worry about it shattering in case it does break. This light can be used both indoors and outdoors. However, if you do use this outdoors, it has to be under some kind of covering or inside some protective light fixture. It can’t be out in the elements like a normal light bulb; you can’t get it wet. However, Ring does have a starter kit which comes with a Ring Bridge and two light bulbs. The good thing about having a bridge is that the lights will connect to the Bridge. The Bridge will connect to your Wi-Fi, taking some of the load off your Wi-Fi. If you have these connected directly to your Wi-Fi, they’re always going to be pinging your Wi-Fi and slowing it down, especially if you’ve got five, six, ten of these light bulbs, constantly pinging that router. This scenario will really bog down your system. But if you have 10 lights that are pinging the Ring Bridge and the Bridge is then connected to the router, then the Bridge will be the only one dedicated to that Wi-Fi router and will lighten its load. This is why it’s good to get the Bridge. This Bridge is going to connect all of your Ring devices together. The box also has the power cable, charging brick, as well as screws, anchors, and the mounting bracket. One thing to note: the bracket for this bridge is partially hidden in the box underneath all the packaging. On the reverse side of that, there are some Ring lights that have motion sensors built in. And they actually sell just motion sensors if you want only those. You can connect those motion sensors, whether it be the path lights or an actual motion sensor, out further in front of your house to activate your cameras earlier. If you have a Ring Video Doorbell and it’s not recording a person approaching the door and then walking away (you’re only capturing their back on the footage, you can have these motion sensors or path light sensors trigger your cameras to turn on earlier than they normally would, which is a huge convenience. I have the Ring Stick Up camera. If you’re just really going to invest in Ring, then this is definitely worth the investment. Being able to link all of your Ring products together is a pretty cool feature. Another positive is that everything will be centralized into one app, making it convenient to monitor everything.
