Domus SAMSON - 30W+5W LED 4-CCT Switchable Push Dimmable Mother & Child Uplighter Floor Lamp Black

The Domus SAMSON-FL is a mother-and-child floor lamp — a 30 W uplighter with a 5 W task arm, both push-dimmable and switchable across four colour temperatures, 240 V, in black.

⛔ A footnote about ceilings, on a lamp that stands on the floor

• ⭐ The datasheet's IP footnote reads: “IP20 rating is from the underside of the down light once installed into the ceiling.”
• ⭐ This is a floor lamp. It is not installed into anything. ⭐ The footnote is boilerplate carried across from a downlight datasheet.
• ⭐ We checked how far that goes: 37 products carry the footnote and 6 of them are not ceiling products — ⭐ two floor lamps and four batten entries, which are surface-mounted rather than recessed.
• ⚠ Harmless to a reader who notices; ⭐ confusing to one who does not, on a product they are looking at. ⭐ THE RATING ITSELF IS RIGHT: IP20 means indoor, dry, no protection against water. ⭐ It is only the explanation that belongs to a different product.

⭐ Mother and child — two lights doing two different jobs

• ⭐⭐ THE MOTHER IS AN INDIRECT LIGHT AND THE FIGURES SHOULD BE READ THAT WAY. ⭐ 2,300 lumens fired at a ceiling comes back as soft, shadowless ambient light — comparable to a modest ceiling fitting, but without a bright source in anyone's eyeline. ⭐ How much comes back depends entirely on the ceiling: a white flat ceiling returns most of it, a dark or raked one returns much less. ⚠ In a room with a dark ceiling an uplighter underperforms and it is not the lamp's fault.
• ⭐ THE CHILD IS A TASK LIGHT AND 300 LUMENS IS THE RIGHT ORDER FOR ONE — ⭐ enough to read or work by when aimed at a page or a lap, and not enough to light a room. ⭐ The pairing is the point: ambient and task from one plug and one footprint.
• ⭐ Both dim independently by push-and-hold, and both switch across the four colour temperatures.

⭐ Four colour temperatures, and how to actually use them

⭐ 3000 K warm white, 4000 K neutral, 5000 K white, 6000 K daylight. ⭐ Note that output rises slightly as the light gets cooler — 2,215 lm at 3000 K against 2,317 at 6000 — ⭐ which is normal: less phosphor conversion means less loss. ⭐ THE USEFUL PATTERN IS TO SET THEM DIFFERENTLY. ⭐ A warm uplighter and a cooler task arm gives a relaxed room with a crisp working pool in it, which is exactly what a study corner or a child's homework desk wants. ⚠ Setting both to 6000 K makes a living room feel like an office.

⭐ CRI ≥80 — adequate, and worth knowing the limit of

⭐ CRI ≥80 is the normal standard for general and task lighting. ⭐ It renders most things acceptably. ⚠ Where it shows its limits is on skin tones, timber and anything where colour judgement matters — ⭐ so for reading, homework and general living it is right, and for art, makeup or fabric selection it is not the lamp. ⭐ The strip products elsewhere in this range run CRI ≥90 for exactly that reason.

⭐ Class III and 20,000 hours

⭐ The sheet lists Class III, which means the LED modules run at extra-low voltage behind an internal driver — ⭐ so the parts you touch are never at mains. ⭐ On a floor lamp that gets moved, knocked and handled by children, that is a meaningful safety property rather than a specification detail. ⭐ 20,000 hours at four hours a day is around thirteen years. ⚠ The LED is not replaceable, so that figure is the lamp's life, not a service interval. ⭐ The 5 kg weight is deliberate — an uplighter needs a base heavy enough not to be pulled over.

✅ What is published

Where it works

• ⭐ Study corners and homework desks — ⭐ warm up, cool down.
• ⭐ Living rooms wanting ambient without a ceiling fitting.
• ⭐ Children's bedrooms — ⭐ Class III, heavy base.
• ⚠ Not under a dark or raked ceiling — ⭐ an uplighter needs one to bounce off.
• ⚠ Not for colour judgement — ⭐ CRI ≥80.

Specifying it

Mother-and-child LED floor lamp. 30 W uplighter, 2,215–2,317 lm; 5 W task arm, 300–309 lm. 3000 / 4000 / 5000 / 6000 K switchable, push-dimmable independently. CRI ≥80. Class III. 240 V. 20,000 hrs. 5 kg. IP20. 1-year warranty. ⛔ ITS DATASHEET FOOTNOTE EXPLAINS THE IP20 RATING "once installed into the ceiling". This is a floor lamp — boilerplate carried across from a downlight sheet, and 6 of the 37 products carrying that footnote are not ceiling products. ⭐ THE RATING ITSELF IS RIGHT; only the explanation belongs to a different product. ⭐ READ THE MOTHER'S 2,300 LUMENS AS INDIRECT LIGHT: how much comes back depends entirely on the ceiling, and under a dark or raked one an uplighter underperforms.

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