So, in the past year I've had 9 lights by 5 companies. None broke, I'm just obsessed with led grow lights in every aspect. I spend hours staring at light test, color spectrum graphs, comparing ppfd, u/mol, dli, spectrum balance, nanometer wavelengths given off by each companies diodes. Studying on what wavelengths of which light does what.
That being said, my SF G5000 is my favorite of all my lights. (Mars, Viparspectra, Fecida, hlg, Aglex....)
Need it for a 3x3 area. Fills it perfectly, hangs like an inch over on each side, so every angle of the plant is being drenched in light. Spectrum is real solid. Id describe it as high end amateur growing light. One week into it, my plants responded big time! Dramatic growth. I didn't realize for first month, this has built in wifi!! Has an app and everything, amazing. Even does the sunrise feature. Also they released a lineup of supplemental lights, UV, ir, and red. I got the red and UV hanging. Using the red to help stack buds on flowering plants. UV I use intermittently, like ten minutes per hour or more. I've seen a MARKED POSITIVE RESULT! by week 2 of UV, the plants are covered in trichomes and I have beautiful purples and almost pinks! Funny how I get extra trichomes, cool color and potency all because I burned the plant with radiation! The trichomes are a defensive mechanism, plant is trying to refract the light away!
Anyway, all in all I highly recommend!! And at the least look into the supplemental, UV is like $45 for 2 bars. Educate yourself on not just light, but ur light. If u know ur light well enough you can use that knowledge to manipulate the plants into growing bigger, different directions, etc.
Love me some SF! I. Also got a Mars Hydro fce4800 coming lmao