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[trueg115]

My apollo 8 just arrived and is in excellent condition, the design is well constructed with a almost silent fan and adequate airflow on the heatsink. I opted for 4x 6500k, 4x 6000k and 4x 2700k as I will be using it for both veg and flowering. Their customer service has been excellent and I can safely say for the price this is a really good system. I will be using it in conjunction with my 400 watt HPS and I like how it really balances out the light making the plants much easier to view.

As time goes on I will be doing side grows and mixed grows with these lights to see how they average out. I know white lighting it not used too much in the grow light world, but I wanted to take a step out and try it out with natural sunlights spectrums, being sure to hit all the ranges of nm. Ill keep this updated as the weeks go by.

 

[Galvatron]

Nice man, I wish I had gone with all white on my Apollo 10s. I got the black case as well but with a silver face but my fans are kind of loud., mine has 6 fans so that may be why.

 

[trueg115]

Yeah, I would imagine it to be the 6 fans, and either way you've got a great light i'm sure. Most people do not know about the benefits of white LED's yet as blue and red spectrums have been pushed so heavily so far.

 

[Vric85]

Where did you order

 

[trueg115]

Cidly.com, I talked to sales rep 70 also known as Winterliu

 

[LEDmania]

So, what's their warranty to end users if we buy the lamps from cidly directly?

 

[trueg115]

It's a 3 year warranty. You can email them for more information on that

 

[prosperian]

True- How much did this unit cost?

 

[trueg115]

The unit was $225 but with shipping being overseas that tacked on around 100 so $325. Still came out to being worth the price

 

[vaulttec]

Weird...my sales rep didnt let me get more than 10 blues-5 white and 6 far reds....the rest were regular reds and deep reds. My unit is 150 w phantom tho. How did she calculate it i dont know...

 

[trueg115]

Well I opted for the aquarium light, which is the exact same except it has 12 diodes per circle and runs on 2 separate power cords instead of one, therefore they are able to evenly distribute the power because blue and white uses more then red does.

 

[vaulttec]

This......i hope i have known this before! Damn. I feel stupid. Aqua lights owns grow lights..looool

 

[Galvatron]

Haha I noticed the 12 diodes too and was like wtf?! It also lowers the cost of the unit. When you go all white cidly drives each diode at a slightly lower wattage, so it will last longer then a blue/red panel. Your panel is what I would have done if I were buying it now. Two cords, all white, and Apollo 8 instead of 10. Nice job thinking it all through.

 

[trueg115]

My hope is to show the great results that full white spectrum lights can bring. I hope to do one grow in the future off of either just this unit or two of them.

 

[FilthyFletch]

What payment options did they take and do they offer a Holding company option for the trade? Curious had some issues lately with few companies from the same region. I dont really like to do wire transfers or western unions and prefer my international trade buys to be handled via trade company so they hold payment until item is secured and verified in their hands then the turn over payment. I usually use this for things like digital ballast pallets of grow tents, tvs, and phones.

 

[BigDgrow]

I just ordered my apollo 12 the other day. Originally when I tried to order they told me that I could ONLY pay via wire. I knew so many people used paypal in the past. Plus my bank won't do a wire out of the country. I went back and forth with the rep for 4 or 5 days, eventually she told me the accounting department just informed them (that day) that they were allowed to take paypal again if it was under $500. Kind of frustrating to be honest, turned a simple process that should have taken 30min into a 5 day long process. On some of the foreign sales sites (alibaba, made in china) their profile says they take "escrow" as payment. I had several reps tell me they no longer accept it though. Then again it also stated they took paypal and they wouldn't let me pay that way at first.

 

[hyroot]

They do paypal. They don't have an aliexpress or alibaba account. There are other distributors that do.. but you buy what they have in stock. No custom spectrum. You can try and contact varoious escrow companies and see if they will do it. Of course there will be fees.

If you so paypal. Tell a cidly Rep that you refuse to do.a bank to bank tranfser or wire. That you only will do paypal or credit card. You want to be protected and not taking any chance on being screwed. If they want your business ... its a buyers market.. I did that and within minutes my Rep hooked ut up. Winter Luis has been my rep for over a year.

I bought an Apollo 8 then sold it and got a 10. Probably selling that one soon so I can do the aquarium ones and have more whites. Probably get 2 10's.

 

[BigDgrow]

My apollo 8 just arrived and is in excellent condition

How long did it take from payment until it arrived on your door step? Did it arrive DHL, and did you have to sign?

 

[BigDgrow]

They do paypal. They don't have an aliexpress or alibaba account. There are other distributors that do.. but you buy what they have in stock. No custom spectrum. You can try and contact varoious escrow companies and see if they will do it. Of course there will be fees.

Actually they do. I was able to find my exact rep(from my direct contact from cidly.com), and use ali's chat program to finalize my deal. Told her my name and she was able to reference exact emails that I had with her days earlier.

Also I had changed my spectrum via chat on alibaba and the updated quote came from the same cidly email.

Although there are a ton of fakes on all of those sites.

 

[hyroot]

It took 2 weeks last year. But I heard they are faster now. I did sign for it. I also requested that.I didn't want it being dropped off at the front office. Yes it is dhl.


Nice find on Ali. I only talked to my Rep recently about aquarium lights. It was funny too. She said they could only do 5 whites per module. Me and true were messaging back and forth and same Rep told him the opposite. Neglected to tell either of us about using the aq's for more whites at first. Then a week later we both finally got emailed back with all the info.