dr.tomb
Well-Known Member
Anyone ever had a string of bad products from a a manufacturer? One offs happen, but when it becomes 10+ items, including "tested" replacements, now that's an issue.
I wish i had found reviews from other growers so i could spend my hard earned money on quality products.
So what companies have you used that are absolutely garbage? Ill start:
Ecospeed LED (Shenzhen Weili Technology Co., Ltd.) on Alibaba. Stay clear of these guys and dont waste your funds.
I ordered 2 800w LED light fixtures. Each fixture has 8 bars of LED lights. After ~7 months i noticed that half a bar was bad and contacted the manufacturer. I turned my dimmable ballast down from 800w (100%) to 640w(80%). I received replacements. I turned the ballast back up, Another bar died. Then another. Then replacements. This started to occur on more and more bars, and even started occurring on replaced bars. I spoke with thr manufacturer and expressed my concerns, only to be met with sales pitches for a newer better product, and even acknowledgement that the product i purchased was a problem plagued item. I asked if I could instead be given a new fixture type, but they declined to send me one, insisting I keep replacing bars and paying shipping. In the end, I took 21 dead bars (over 2 full fixtures) to the recycling depot. Waste plenty of downtime, shipping $ and personal time.
I have since ditched one of the lights to some unfortunate soul (combining all working bars into a full working unit, for how long.. Who knows), but in my defence i needed to recoup some of my costs.
The other remaining ballast i opened and realized the company rebranded another Chinese manufacturer as their own. I purchased new light bars from another company suggested to me on a Facebook grow group.
Since then, i have had zero issues.
The only change was winter to summer and my temp went from consistently ~24*C to ~30*C (i know its hot, but i dont run ac).
It appears that the increase in temperature brought out the unreliability of the product. Even though they are rated far above 30C for working Temperatures.
I wish i had found reviews from other growers so i could spend my hard earned money on quality products.
So what companies have you used that are absolutely garbage? Ill start:
Ecospeed LED (Shenzhen Weili Technology Co., Ltd.) on Alibaba. Stay clear of these guys and dont waste your funds.
I ordered 2 800w LED light fixtures. Each fixture has 8 bars of LED lights. After ~7 months i noticed that half a bar was bad and contacted the manufacturer. I turned my dimmable ballast down from 800w (100%) to 640w(80%). I received replacements. I turned the ballast back up, Another bar died. Then another. Then replacements. This started to occur on more and more bars, and even started occurring on replaced bars. I spoke with thr manufacturer and expressed my concerns, only to be met with sales pitches for a newer better product, and even acknowledgement that the product i purchased was a problem plagued item. I asked if I could instead be given a new fixture type, but they declined to send me one, insisting I keep replacing bars and paying shipping. In the end, I took 21 dead bars (over 2 full fixtures) to the recycling depot. Waste plenty of downtime, shipping $ and personal time.
I have since ditched one of the lights to some unfortunate soul (combining all working bars into a full working unit, for how long.. Who knows), but in my defence i needed to recoup some of my costs.
The other remaining ballast i opened and realized the company rebranded another Chinese manufacturer as their own. I purchased new light bars from another company suggested to me on a Facebook grow group.
Since then, i have had zero issues.
The only change was winter to summer and my temp went from consistently ~24*C to ~30*C (i know its hot, but i dont run ac).
It appears that the increase in temperature brought out the unreliability of the product. Even though they are rated far above 30C for working Temperatures.
