That's the thing I never understood. Why would he choose to make his own COB with tightly-packed individual LEDs if there's not an advantage to it? He didn't seem ignorant, nor a con-artist like those who sell epi-whatever fixtures for Cree prices. He knows his datasheets and uses Cree.
Something about what he's doing seems odd to me in that way. If he's just trying to make a quick buck from the ignorant masses (in the same way Kind, Lush, HydroGrowLED, GrowBlu, Blackdog do), I would have expected him to jump on the COB bandwagon. Easier assembly, etc. Or, use epi-whatever diodes if he (for whatever) reason didn't like COBs. (I.e., why more expensive diodes?).
Just seems like a weird position to be in, making his own COB-like array of diodes while bashing COBs, while playing up efficiency and setting himself apart from the predatory brands mentioned above.
The other thing that seemed odd was how he supposedly has been into 420 and LEDs for years, but was completely ignorant of this forum and the people he disputes via his anti-COB rhetoric on his "LED 101" page.
Nothing about him makes sense to me. That makes me wonder if he's not onto something. I can't think of another explanation for the above. He's either brilliant or a compulsive liar. I don't see either way around it. If he's a compulsive liar (constructing this kind of "off" way of viewing efficiency) it seems like he could have tailored a lie for better personal results to himself. Such as, using COBs and lying about how wonderful they are (getting the benefit of cheaper assembly costs).
I agree with you guys that something seemed off about him. But, I'm not prepared to say he's a scammer. If he were, why would he go to the trouble of making his own COB via densely-packed individual LEDs? It doesn't add up?
Also, it was mentioned his posts were deleted due to spam. That was my fault. I pointed him to the thread where his light was being discussed. I should have understood RIU's requirements and helped keep him in line.
However, having said that, it was pretty obvious that he was reported just because his position irritated the "in group" here. There does seem to be a tendency to, "if we can't win, let's turn up the heat and then report that heat so the discussion is closed." We just saw it with
@REALSTYLES .
I'm not saying the SK guy (or realstyles) was correct. Disagreeable viewpoints tend to be closed down that way. (I.e., that SK conclusion made me wonder if there wasn't truth in
@PetFlora 's claim of being threatened with grassing out. There definitely were people who were not merely in disagreement, but visibly angry.).
Just my 2-cents as someone who was responsible for that prior SK thread.
Play up how everyone's doing stuff wrong (as he does play up right now), and get the advantage of selling cheap diodes.
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