I agree, took me 3k to get into commercial LED fixtures and at the time they were a direct replacement for 1k HPS But with a 500w draw. The story I have heard is the guy who originally designed the the NeoSol DS for Illumitex in Houston was trying to make basically a second gen BML Spyder but with upgrades and improved spectrum. Their light came out better and had a full 5 year direct replacement warranty…and at $1500 per fixture it was needed tbh.
I got into LED’s then and not 6 months after I had them swinging and routinely crushing numbers in the 1.85+ gpw range…BML gets bought out by Fluence and the guy left Illumitex to head to Fluence to build a third gen light…this latest gen is bad ass and full spectrum, and I know a breeder that just covered basically an 4x8 area with one fixture on a mover (Fluence) and hit numbers in the 3.5+ gpw range so that fixture is fire.
Good LED’s are not cheap and cheap LED’s are not good. I have not heard any feedback from HortiLED or seen any grows, I’ll have to do some research, thank you. 