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I just bought a house which has a rec room with recessing lighting. I put some pics below. It has 11 120v MR16 GU10 circle recessed light cups. All the bulbs were 50W Halogen bulbs and they were controlled by a single toggle dimmer switch. The first thing I did was to replace the the toggle switch with a Wemo WiFi smart dimmer switch F7C059. Everthing worked fine and I was able to dim the lights all way down to barely being on. Which is what I want to give it the movie theater atmosphere. Now I wanted to replace the Halogens with LED bulbs since the Halogens run so hot and because the LEDs will be a lot cheaper to run. My problem is I can't seem to find an LED bulb that will work correctly. I've tried 5 different bulbs and either they won't dim all the way down. They only dim to say 10 or 15% which is still way to bright or the ones that do dim all the way down when I have them down to say 3-5% some of them will give a slight flicker from time to time which is annoying. I did fine one bulb that works perfectly the FEIT Electric 35W replacement 4.6w 120v 60hz 55ma model: BPMR16IFGU300930CA/3. The only problem is that this bulb is a 3000k and is to white. I want something in the 2700k warm spectrum. The other bulbs I tried are the amazon basics 75ma 7w 120v 3000k AB MR1650WE830SDIMGU10FR, the Maxlite 4.5w 120v 2700k .055A 60hz Model: MR16GUD27FL, the 90+ Authority 7w 120v 2700k 60hz 65ma model: SE-RL5.C102.1107G, and the Mastery Mart 120v 5.5w 2700k 50ma 60hz model: MM-LGU10D2710.
I would love any advice on what would be the best bulb and would work for what I want to do? I have found that I want 2700K and that the lower wattage less lumen bulbs 300-400 or 35W equivalent work better then the 500+lumen 50w equivalent bulbs. Can anyone recommend a good bulb that will work? Or should I consider buying a different Smart dimmer switch and if so what do you recommend?

Thanks for all your help!
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probably the dimmer is incompatible with LEDs. It's designed for a higher load and may well have too high a minimum load. I always get a dimmer from the same supplier as the LEDs. Often LEDs require a trailing edge dimmer as opposed to leading edge.
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say you have 11 LEDs @ 5watts each. that's total 55watts. your existing dimmer probably is 60 - 600watts. you need a dimmer with a min. load <55watts.
 
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