Ah ok – I’ve seen this before too. It really depends on the bulb, but I’m not entirely sure as to why it does this (ie: the engineering reason behind this – I do have a note out to the manufacturer to have them better explain it).
What I did to, “fix” this is set a minimum dim setting (ie: 20% or wherever you notice the bulb turns on) and that makes it the lowest it will go (and it will start there when turning it on). Fix is in quotes as I realize you don’t get the very low dim settings that you likely want, but at least it won’t take some time for the bulbs to turn on.
I realize this is not the best answer, but as you can imagine, there’s 1000’s of bulbs out there and we tried to test as many as we could, but we couldn’t test them all, so the point of this thread: Compatible Bulbs for Dimmer Switch (Gen 2) is to start to list out the ones that work and don’t work so that we can have an optimized experience for everyone.
@datzent83 @dan1282 @exo – and anyone else – can you list out your bulbs (ie: name-brand, SKU # if possible, etc) so that I can purchase them and test them out?
Thanks guys, and sorry for the frustration. I can say that I’ve definitely seen this before when we initially tested the switches out and when we swapped out the bulbs, it worked as intended.