According to the ad there is a 420 watt and 100 watt light they sell so it could just be a picture issue. On the bright side one can always send it back through Amazon if it’s not as advertised.
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Then based on the apparent naming convention it should be rated for around 400w by the driver manufacturer.
Anyone know anything about Happsky perchance?
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Mine should be here Sunday so I’ll post a clear pic of the label when I get it
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No clue why the large discount but lots reviews from people who paid $400 and are thrilled with it. From everything I can tell it looks like a win. Good luck and happy growing to all who grabbed one.
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yeah, in past experience going with Amazon reviews is a sketchy ordeal, but they seemed a little more legit than the bot farm 5 star reviews with all the pics and long-ish writeups, so as someone else said, if it ends up being light worth less than $150 Amazon can have it back. lol. Definitely appreciate the scrutiny though, got me thinking about some things I wouldn’t normally think about.
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Well theres 4:20 I wont get back . . . Slick video though.
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the fakespot analyzer delivered an F grade on this product, so i suppose we’ll just have to wait and see how it works out once it gets delivered to og’ers. at the worst, amazon’s getting returns in a few weeks. or, at the not so worst is maybe to buy the meanwell driver that Oldjoints linked us to if the supplied driver is not up to par (not up to ppfd? lol).
either way, thanks @msm187 for sharing this find and thanks og for helping to sus this product out. i love how collaborative this process is as we’re trying to figure out whether this will help us grow better for cheaper or not.
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Usually fake reviews are pretty easy to spot, and most of these seem legit, but there were a few(Checked again, almost all of them are Vine Reviewers who got it for free) who received the light for free to review and I know that weighs heavy on FS’s scores.
One thing that really threw me about Opprui was this:
20yrs of experience but almost no online footprint outside of amazon and alibaba. Eyebrow raising. Just hope it ends up being worth the money or next time I post a deal I find people are gonna be like “That’s the asshole who posted the light that burned down my house and killed my cat!” haha
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you’re right, the reviews did seem pretty genuine even if fakespot gave the product a horrible score. i’m glad to see there weren’t any reviews where people were complaining about the driver overheating or blowing up. but who knows with amazon nowadays whether any reviews are being filtered out or not shown.
i hear you about the lack of brand awareness that opprui has. on the other hand, i keep reading about how many products are being produced in the same factories using the same parts and it’s all just being re-branded. so who knows if opprui is one of those anonymous factories and they’re now hoping to establish a worldwide brandname.
but i swear, if this light burns down my house and kills my non-existent cat, i will find you. lol
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A lot of times, if its legit, companies will be oem manufacturers for others or in the corporate/industrial segments that we wouldnt hear about. Especially if its the industrial segment in another country. TCL built tvs for others for a got bit before breaking into the US market. Was a new name for us then but TCL had been putting tvs together for awhile before that.
Or its all BS. Who knows.
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This is a fact. I’ve dealt with chinese manufacturers several times in a few different industries and they are all making the same shit with a different name slapped on the box, usually cloned from something a customer originally had one of them make that was patented.
I should have had people sign a waiver…lmao
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Wouldn’t the light need something a bit beefier than 240w? I didn’t look at the datasheet, just the specs on the listing but if this is actually ~400w light we’d need a driver closer to the claimed output, right? Or am I missing something?
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The cheap Amazon lights are legit, I just picked up this one for 285usd at checkout last week, came in yesterday, par matches up on Photone doesn’t get any hotter than my mars hydro either
SAMPHON Led Grow Lights 4x4ft Coverage Dimmable Daisy Chain Full Spectrum 480W Hanging Plant Lights for Indoor Growing,Grow Lamp for Indoor Plants Veg and Bloom https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Q559RKG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_SKK0EAFS7CX8CA12G6WX
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Also my 3 150w Dakason lights were only $50 each and are solid af. Been running them since a bit before Xmas and they’re great(discontinued though)
The smaller one has a 50% off coupon as well making it only $50. Both are very tempting to try out… Any idea when the been coupon ends?
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If you look at that light it uses two boards to make up that light. So it would take two drivers, one for each board. If you are worried about to much wattage put out by the driver, there is a screw on the driver that will adjust the wattage of the driver itself. I only know that because I bought a light that didn’t work from the factory and called the company and they sent me a new driver. When going to replace it I happened to notice the screw and adjusted it and the light came on.
The light you posted is similar to a sf4000 spiderfarmer which is what I am currently using. They use 4 boards with two drivers.
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Once again, trusting the pic is folly, but this seems at least the correct product. Looks like one. And should only need one wattage wise from the pics weve seen.
From YouTube review.
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Yeah the pic I posted yesterday was from one of the amazon reviews. Converting this to two separate drivers wouldn’t be difficult though. You can see in that review video that there is a splitter coming off the driver, he mentions they have unique plugs so you don’t mix them up(not that it matters as it’s just a splitter). Looks like the split happens a few inches up the output wire so you could hack each end of the splitter off, wire them up to two separate mean well drivers and dimmers and be good to go. Personally I’d rather have one driver and one dimmer before the split on something like this, but two could absolutely work. My electronic engineering is a bit rusty though as it’s been 22yrs since I graduated from vocational school and didn’t go into the electronics field.
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Ok, got the light today and just replaced my Maxisun MF2000. First here’s a clear pic of the driver:
Confirms it’s a 400w Happsky driver as we figured out a couple days ago. Even the manual says 420w and I just lol’d as I confirmed the driver. That’s China for you, and that they’re only claiming 20w more than the driver can do is better than expected. If it showed up with a single 200w driver I wouldn’t have been surprised.
I don’t have a PAR meter, so I can’t get too in depth on performance, but at 20" away and ~10% power I get pretty even lux around the tent(32"x32") at 5.5k.
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So I think time will tell with this one. I know a someone earlier mentioned they grabbed one and would put it through some tests, so looking forward to that info to see if it’s actually worth the money, but for now, it lights up and cranked to 100% is blinding, so that’s good, right? lol
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