Senior Smoke
Well-Known Member
Very true. Im realizing all this. You get what you pay for. Kinda like Sub woofer amps. lol.If it sounds too good to be true, it is. A decent 250 watt cob will run you somewhere around 300 dollars. This one "says" it's 1200 watts. It's not. It's not even close.
Scroll down the page and you'll see it's power draw is actually only 250-270 watts.
What these el-cheapo's do is use the max rating on the actual lights and circuits at certain frequencies and add them all together and call it a 1200 watt fixure. The reality though is that they're very cheap lights with very poor elements and very cheap, third rate circuitry.
It's like a cheap guitar amplifier for 300 bucks that says it's 200 watts of power, and then you come over to my place and my Vox AC 30 (which is only 30 watts) blows you out of the room. But, that's why it cost just over $1000 dollars.
Read the fine print. When the power draw on a fixture is only a fraction of what it's advertised to be, don't walk away...RUN. Like hell.