Walk into any site — office ceiling, corridor, retail track, or restaurant soffit — you’ll find GU10 fittings everywhere. They’re standard, compact, and easy to swap. The problem? Half the lamps on the market don’t hold their tone or burn out early. Faro GU10 LED bulbs solve that old headache: stable beam, proper thermal balance, and a housing that fits right. From an installer’s view, they’re the lamps you don’t think about twice — and that’s exactly the point.
Voltage: 220–240 V AC direct line — no external driver, no transformers to fail.
Power range: from 4 W to 8 W, replacing 35–75 W halogens with less heat and longer life.
Lumen output: 400 – 900 lm depending on model, consistent across batches.
Beam angles: 15° narrow spot for accents, 36° or 60° flood for general use.
Colour temperature: 2700 K warm for hospitality, 3000–4000 K neutral for commercial areas; CRI ≥ 80 standard, CRI ≥ 90 available.
Body material: aluminium or thermally conductive composite; housing stays cool even in enclosed downlights.
Dimming: fixed and phase-cut dimmable versions; flicker-free operation down to 10 %.
Lifespan: 25 000 – 50 000 hours typical, with slow lumen depreciation.
On a hotel floor last season, we swapped 300 halogens for Faro GU10 LED bulbs overnight. Every fixture worked first try — same colour tone, same beam, zero mismatch. The dimming curve matched the legacy control panel, no buzzing at 40 %. In a retail zone, narrow-beam Faro GU10 LED spotlights handled product highlights without glare.
One more job — open-plan offices. Neutral-white 4000 K lamps kept desk light balanced while cutting HVAC load. You could literally measure lower ceiling temperatures. Seen worse, replaced worse. These hold steady.
Procurement teams usually check the basics first — and that’s where these lamps tick boxes fast:
Procurement people don’t want pretty words; they want to know the lamps arrive on time, pass inspection, and last their warranty. That’s the whole game.
GU10 fittings can be unforgiving — tight housings, short thermal clearance, awkward ceiling tiles. Faro GU10 LED lamps hold form and temperature so they don’t crack plaster rings or overheat drivers nearby. During maintenance, crews just twist, pull, replace — no seizing sockets, no melted caps.
In commercial or hospitality use, you’ll see lumen consistency even after thousands of hours. That matters when different zones age at different rates. Keeping one GU10 family across all areas avoids tone drift and random patchwork lighting. It’s the difference between “professionally finished” and “cheaply replaced”.
At Bank of Lamps, GU10 isn’t just a line item — it’s one of our daily movers.
We run a central European warehouse in Latvia, shipping Faro GU10 LED bulbs in steady flow to contractors and integrators across the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Baltics, France, Spain, and Belgium.
Our edge isn’t hype — it’s rhythm:
When your ceiling’s open and labour’s booked by the hour, stock reliability isn’t a perk — it’s survival. That’s why people source their Faro GU10 LED lighting through Bank of Lamps.