4000W LED Grow Light Full Spectrum with 864 LEDs - Dual Switch for Hydroponic, Seedling, Veg & Bloom - Covers 4x4ft Indoor Plants - Perfect for Greenhouse, Sunlight Replacement & Year-Round Growing

FSGTEK 1000 Grow Light Review.Greetings. As an engineer, I prefer data points over talking points so will leave those to others. As anexperienced grower I would like to recommend this 1000w grow light for your garden. In fact froma price/performance/reliability and best of all, flexibility of design perspective, I would absolutely buythis over any of the more well-known name brands for the following reasons:* The light bands output by the 1000w grow light are more of the golden bands with just touches of thered/blues sprinkled in. History has taught me that this color "zone" produces the best and most robustplants for my needs.* Massive heat sink, negating the need for a fan. This is something the competition attempts but doesn'tget quite right. ‘The Planet Name brand’ for example leans more on larger but far thinner heat sinks todissipate anything generated by the lights. The 1000w grow light on the other hand uses a smaller (stilltotal size of light) but far heavier heat sink to do what feels like a better job wasting less space. Worksfor me.* Respected LED Driver. Others speak highly of this maker and model and so far I have no reason todoubt them, I simply don't have enough history with it myself. That said, enough names I respect haveand make it a solid "buy".* Measurably brighter than the competition. I have a decent mix of LED panels and like many grewtired of the constant debate of "actual watts vs estimated watts" when it comes to LED light output.Everything from driver efficiency to LED efficiency levels can alter this a great deal. At the end of theday, how much light is coming out? To cut through the noise I purchased a simple light meter fromAmazon and measured everybody. The short answer is, the 1000w grow light blew away its nearestcompetitor in my set, my previous favorite the Planet Name brand 600w model. True it is expectedto be less than something claiming to be 1000w but not 4x less. Not that the Planet Name brand is less,its that this 1000w grow light is that much *more*. As an engineer I can get behind hard numbers. As a grower my eyes know what "freaking bright" looks like and now I have numbers to put to that assessment.The 1000w grow light outscored everybody.For a simple measure anyone can understand, when set at max the light from this is so intense it continually overloads and shuts down the CCD sensor in your camera.* One other reason the Planet Name brand model was used in the last test is simply because that unitcosts almost the same as the 1000w grow light on Amazon. Last I checked it was 89 vs 92 dollars.* One reason this light excels personally for me and my situation is I do alot of outside the box growingmethods and unlike every other panel I have, the 1000w grow light really lends itself to this type ofgrowing. For one thing it comes with an Ethernet cable so you can daisy-chain multiple panels for asingle point of control. Each panel sports a pair of RJ-45 jacks for this purpose. My methods requirelight "stacking" for which the daisy-chain option really works. In the same vein, other aspects of howthe gear comes make my light stacking technique work easier. I have been writing to Planet Namebrand for a while now begging for these features.In sum, I will buy this light again for my garden. Price, performance and efficiency. For once, you arenot forced to pick only two.UPDATE: I got another. The daisy chain feature works as advertised, and is a nice convenience to have in my installation. One dimmer knob is mounted so it is accessible, the other is out of the way, and I get nice uniform light. The included Cat 6 cable was just a little bit too short, so I used an old Cat 5 cable (ethernet) I had lying around, and it works perfectly. (See third and fourth photos, which also show the bottom of the panel.)I bought this light because it fits in a recessed area (I needed a light less than 10 inches wide, so for LEDs it was either this design of quantum board, or a too-powerful bar light like the Mars Hydro SP150, 250, 3000, etc.)I chose this board partly for the price (I paid less than $75 USD), but also because it checked these boxes:1. A Meanwell Driver2. A dimming box, with daisy chain capabilities3. Samsung diodes (not the top of the line, but good)4. A good spectrum (not blurple since it is in my living room), and moderate light output.And I'm amazed we've reached the point where I could get all of these things at this price point. Hands on, I like the warm temperature of the light, it is much more consistent with the temperature of lights in my home than the Aerogarden panel is, for example. You can see the difference in the color of the lights in the attached photo - that is the Aerogarden Bounty with the 40W light panel (6 inches from tallest plants), and the FSGTEK panel at full power (18 inches from the tall pepper).I used a kill-o-watt, and the panel does indeed draw 100W on full power, as advertised.The board was not designed to move the driver and dimmer off of the rear of the panel. The cable connecting the driver to the panel is 20cm long, and the dimmer box has no bottom cover, so if you remove them, you'll be greeted with a few exposed electronics. The panel is hidden, but I wanted easy access to the dimmer knob, and I'm concerned about heat in my installation, so I removed the driver and used all the cable provided. It's just about perfect, luckily, but I would appreciate it if a jumper cable were sold to extend this reach (if possible, I haven't tried to detach any of the connectors to see if they really do detach).As far as heat goes, I was not prepared for how thick the aluminum heatsink/panel back is. This light has some heft to it for its small size, and that big aluminum block keeps things nice and cool. I've been running the board at 40% for hours, and the panel is not even warm to the touch. The driver is warm-ish, but not so warm as to be uncomfortable to the touch. Note that I do have two 4" fans (AC Infinity Airplate S1's) blowing air across the top of my enclosure where heat could be trapped, with the fan near this light blowing directly over the panel. The fabric around this light is not warm in the slightest. (I am treating the fabric with a fire retardant as well.)Overall, Day 1: no complaints. Now I want to buy another one and move the Aerogarden somewhere else.... that enclosure would look great (and thanks to daisy-chaining, only one dimmer needs to be accessible). I hope to update with a review of the performance after a couple of months of growing.I ended up replacing a set of lesser LED lights with this massive light. I love the plant penatration this light provides. I have watched the buds get bigger in just the few days I have had the light installed. Would buy again. Highly recommend this over some more expensive name brand lights.Just a well built led grow light compared to other bulky blurple old style, this is a full spectrum sunlike and the dimmer is awesome!!! Must buy for your indoor plants :) the amount of new growth over the two week period from the day I hung the light, I'm gett a new node or two per day on a cannabis plant it's insanely bright I will be buying it again and I can't wait to see what there new upgrade from this badass led grow light!! happy growing everyone!Very good light for a 2x2x4 tent. The seedlings love it as did clones I recieved from a friend. The clones perked up and showed noticeable growth before moving to my larger tent. The heat sink is thick for sure and has been predrilled for a larger driver replacement, the driver on it is meanwell. The dimmer is very simple and functional.Seems to work just as good as my spiderfarmer lights. Gets pretty warm so a fan above it. Time will tell. But I would buy another for sure . The right parts inside.Very bright for the size I thought it would of been a bit bigger but works good for a few plants overall I’m happy works good for the price