I’m in the market for a new LED and i keep going back and forth between the
Spider Farmer SE5000($570) or the ROI-e420($499) and so i figured i would ask you wise people…
I’m leaning towards the SE5000 for the lovely additional spectrums and the higher wattage but that cheaper price for the 420 keeps calling my name…
i’m open to other ideas (i know i should just build my own but time and lazy work against me)
they both have a 5 year warranties per the manufacturers. SF has their breakdown posted on their site as far as what it covers and when and im waiting on a chat reply from growers choice to get the breakdown of their warranty but it does say you have to go to the store u bought it from where SF doesn’t seem have that limitation and that may be because most of their stuff is sold on Amazon.
SF wins for using the latest Samsung diodes for white and Osram for the red but Growers Choice is a better known brand but with Growers Choice i’d have to buy a controller in order to dim the light
SO DAMN TORN!!!
oh and the SF warranty at 1-5 years you have to pay for shipping and repair fee (whatever that may be) so that kinda sucks. hopefully GC will answer their chat soon
Never trusted their charts. Could be accurate but lots of fishy stuff and copied charts and off numbers from a lot of the manufacturers. No accusations, just healthy skepticism. Talking about both of em, so no bias.
The growstore i bought my light from told me if it ever breaks just bring it back and they will swap it with a new one no questions asked. From what I read the spider farmer warranty is iffy at best and your going to be waiting for a long time when u may need a light right away. Also the growers choice do have built in dimmers on the lights 25/50/75/100%. The controller just lets you boost it up to 115% and a couple other fancy things like sunrise/sunset stuff.
If you have a local grow store that sells lights at a decent price id say go talk to them. Alot of them are really struggling right now to compete with amazon and are extra willing to work with customers.
Mine has HLG but WAY more expensive but apparently one of my local buddies said they would match HLG website prices. I still went with spider farmer, but still. Def talk em down if you can and ask about price matching or at least a little discount.
My local grow shop had 1 gal foxfarm grow big for $128. Its like 57 or 58 on amazon. Support em, but dont go broke.
You want more options? The se3000 is 260 on ebay with tax. Direct from their website it is 320 but NO tax and includes a 3 neck 75w total goose neck light. Both free shipping.
I actually got one of each to get one cheaper and check the 75watter out. Have em in my 2x4. Way over kill. At like 60%.
if yall have others that you think would compare at the wattage / size / price point feel free to throw them out to me. im having a hard enough time deciding, why not make it harder
