Luminara and Premier dancing flame LED candle showdown.04:33

A side by side comparison of the Luminara LED candle and the cheaper Premier dancing flame version.
These two LED candles emulate the physical movement of a flame by deflecting a flame shaped plastic scoop magnetically in front of an LED light source.
As you’ll see in the review they are very different in quality of effect. The Luminara has a lovely golden white flame colour and subtle movement, while the Premier candle has a rather odd pinkish white coloured flame that physically clatters off the sides of it’s mounting making it quite a noisy unit. This isn’t just one defective unit, I got an older version last year with a hideous yellow LED and it was just as noisy.
If Premier specified a much richer golden white colour for the LED and just did something simple like adding a series resistor to the flame deflection coil so it wasn’t so violent they would improve their product appearance greatly. They could also reduce the current through the LED to make it more subtle and increase battery life.
I like to take stuff to bits and hack it to make it better, but sadly the Premier candles are made of actual wax which is almost impossible to remove the glued-in electronic base from without breaking. I don’t think people would mind if they just used plastic bodies like the new outdoor Luminara does.