Quote Originally Posted by DreadedHermie
There's at least a dozen companies making these UFO things. I know some folks on this board have some that work surprisingly well for $200. Others are dogs. That's why I just build my own--I don't know which ones are which. But if you use top grade components and tune 'em in right, leds rock. :thumbsup: Ain't cheap, though. 3 bucks a watt for the top-end stuff: $2/W for the diodes and another $1 /W for the power supplies. But 125 watts of those will BURY a 250W HPS.

The quad-band thing could be marketing BS. The only 4 band that makes sense to me is royal blue / blue / red /deep red. Course that's just 2 fat bands, blue and red, IMO. Lotsa peeps wantin' white LEDs added these days. If they knew how a white led is made, they wouldn't....

Depending on the beam angle the lenses are providing, you might be hitting the seedlings with enough light to stop them in their tracks. Did you move the UFO up so you could fit the CFL's in, and then they started growing again? Some lights will actually put out too much light if you get them to close, because of the lensing.

Give us some more info and somebody will offer an opinion. There are definitely led growlights out there that suck. Others are just vastly overpriced. That's why you hear "LED's don't work!" so often. But there are really effective ones (T1 Smartlamp, Procyon 100) available, and some decent UFO's for $200.
Wow thanks for answering! Its like a ghost town on every board lately.

I actually added 4 26w cfls to the 90w ufo. Seem to be doing good now.

I have the ufo about 1.5 feet up now, you think thats good?

I contacted seller today and he said people love their leds and they have 6000 pos feedback, so maybe Im doing something wrong? He seemed like a cool guy and offered a refund even though I am out of their refund timing. He said Im the 1st to ever complain.

The bulbs are blue, dark blue, red and orange.
texashustle Reviewed by texashustle on . Return my 90w ufo? Ok heres the deal I bought one of these 90w quad band ufo leds off eBay. They say how great the are and have 100% feedback where many others say how good their lights are. Well I had my seedlings under the ufo for several days after taking them out from my cfls and didnt see as much growth as I did with them only under 3 26watt daylight cfls. I was like wtf? So I added 4 26w daylight cfls to the ufo and growing started up again. For as much as they hop these things up, Im not really happy Rating: 5