I bought myself a Barlast Ikea table lamp. It came without any bulbs so I went and bought 11w LED bulb. I came home and found out that the label on the wire and fixture says 8.6W Max.
Is it dangerous to use that 11w bulb with this fixture, or should I return it and get a lower wattage one?
Usually max watts on light fixtures is for heat build up in the fixture so returning it and getting a lower wattage one is the best.
Besides the possible chance of the fixture melting or burning, LED electronics do not like heat and their life span is greatly reduced to weeks/months instead of years.
If your only concern is about the maximum brightness of the light, you can get high efficiency LED bulbs. 8.5W is roughly equivalent to a 60W incandescent at standard efficiency levels and 11W to a 75W incandescent.
However you can get high efficiency bulbs that put out a lot more light per watt. These bulbs for example put out 1400 Lumens for 8W; which is brighter than a typical 100W incandescent bulb.
