@PlatinumLEDTom,
Well, I thank you for the offer to try and solve any issues I may have with the light. It is currently vegging 12 lovely DP plants with it. I must say, the light spectrum looks spectacular - this, in visual comparison to my favourite lights. I like the added greens you've included. Anthocyanin's will love this for sure, and any Purple Kush growers out there will certainly benefit from this light spectrum.
But...
Whoever said these fans read 15dB is absolutely insane, deaf or needs glasses. The unit I have is possibly the loudest light I've ever encountered, and I have 6 different brands. And you should never repeat these claims as 15dB is simply ludicrous, if not insultuous. 15dB is lower than the rating for the most expensive silent fans on the market, that rotate at much much inferior speed and with less than half the CFM rating of your fans.
Unless of course, he used an uncalibrated meter, weighted D curve and measured at a distance of 1 mile… And why would YOU ever support these insane claims is beyond me. A simple smartphone app will give close enough readings to disprove this by a looooong shot.
And empirically saying this light is "whisper silent" is just bullsh!t. I am widely known around here as a nice and courteous person, and this sort of post certainly does NOT reflect my typical demeanour. But I owe it to my AFN brethren to speak out.
I ONLY bought this light cause I payed 150 buck for it at it's spanking new and barely used. I will gut it out, rip these jet-plane fans out and put in real silent fans with as close CFM rating as I can. My GN units are running 4 years with this mod, zero issue. Your heatsink looks good enough to handle the extra heat.
In fact, I deliberately "voided" the warranty seal over the screw to open it up and have a look inside. So the warrant thing is not even an issue any more, thank you …
Sourcing out the specs for these fans, direct from the source using simple google translator…
And we all know how vendors specs are always dubious, especially from Asia without proper technical support data … and here they themselves claim
41 dB for a single fan, which is quite noisy! Add four of them together (model P600) and I'd say the unit spits out around 55-65 dB, if not more, based on my 20+ years as an audio engineer.
So not only am I extremely disappointed (if not utterly pissed) by your incomprehensible "void" of warranty by simple ownership transfer (that I can very easily circumvent anyways, you'd never know, as I have the original invoice and the seller is actually a super cool dude almost neighbour), but your honesty as a OEM vendor is put to question. You don't even have a clue about your own specs, yet claim a ludicrous 15dB!!! This is absurd!!
It's sad that I had to go out of my way to set the record straight so NO ONE pulls the trigger and buys your product based on that metric. To some this may be a non-issue, but for MANY MANY MANY stealth growers, this is IMPERATIVE information, with the UTMOST SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS as virtually no one has the chance to see the light in action before buying.
I have COMPLETELY lost faith in Platinum LED and will not ever conduct business with them. I'd rather buy direct from China.
Thanks, but no thanks, Platinum LED.
Just to put this in perspective … the guy that I bought this from payed the full 650 dollars + 25% import tax into europe. He had no idea they were sold on Amazon (and no clue why Platinum did NOT inform him and let him buy direct !!!)
Imagine you are looking for a light, a stealth light, and a representative of a company claims "hey, its 15dB woo-hoo whisper silent, yey!" … and you pull the trigger for almost 1k, and end up with a jet engine at home.
How would you like that happen to YOU
@PlatinumLEDTom ?
