"We use high quality proprietary brand drivers."
Anytime you see "proprietary brand" or a company has a "secret sauce" there tends to be some kind of shadiness right around the corner. Take a look at advancedledlights for instance, I thought they were great they even grow decent buds but try getting more than one of your products fixed on the warranty and you will find the phone never picks up.
Please don't take this as picking on you guys but it is really hard to put some real trust in your products when you divulge 0 of the information that people are asking for. If someone asks you how many watts your light is do you think they are asking how many watts including fans and other shit etc or do you think they are asking for straight up how many watts is my light actually putting out.
I keep getting tempted to buy into this as people are chompin at the bit about cobs but answering any question with "its a secret" screams to me ... "its secretly bullshit"
yeah man, I have heard all those things before, and thought about them quite a bit. At the end of the day if the leds work, they work.
companies claims on footprint coverage are rarely accurate (main light coverage), yes take fan wattage out of the power draw and youll have light wattage. Claims of replacing a 400w with 200w, well, idk about that... Claims about less heat- sure, maybe theres less heat watt for watt. But imo, its more that the heat is dissipated differently, there still is a fair amount of heat. That's how energy works, I'm not a scientist, but it makes sense.
That's also my theory on why plants under leds often need more water, the heat is pushed either out the top, or out the sides of the led, either way its staying closer to the plants. Just a rough theory...
As far as warranty, I'm giving companies the benefit of the doubt. Ill rip them apart online if they don't stand behind it (not a threat, I'm just saying...). Word of mouth on these types of things is crucial. The only thing that concerns me is if a company goes out of business. but I'm pretty handy, between me and my bro in law we can fix or repair anything (knock on wood).
They all claim to have cutting edge, newest technology. Well, they cant all have the newest, unless they all have the same.
As far as advanced leds, no idk if they would back their warranty.
I own a platinum led, and I think they would be good about warranty work. they seem like upstanding people, and so does the go green rep on here.
Also, as far as the 50000 hrs rating goes, thats 11years at 12hrs a day. I figure the output will be less than 70% after 5 years (from what I read) which is when id want to replace all the leds.
also, all these parts for leds are made in china, maybe assembled here in the us but ive heard a lot about "drop shipping". Imo there all probably parts from china, most assembled there as well, possibly tested at the company and then sent to you. So, at the end of the day, these are moderately priced for the cob tech they have.
All said and done, I'm going to give this company a try. Sorry for the rant, but I know where Siino is coming from, so I thought Id put my opinion out there.