Barrina GAOAG Plant Light (Black)

Quite nice - few months at about 12 hours per day and no problems top date. We are using to illuminate plant starter shelves. VERY lightweight, with plastic LED tube covers, so tough and very resistant to breakage. If you intend to make these adjustable (move around or varying heights) you will need to buy some small eye hooks or such to hang them from, as the sticky-back and screw-in and cable-tie mounting options they provide parts for are pretty much fixed in place. We used small eye screws into the bottom of the shelf above, then 1, 2 and 3" S hooks for easily adjustable height over the plants - though you could use string or new cable ties each move or such as well. Lots of suspension options because the lights are so light weight. The jumper wires allow you to daisy-chain them not just in a row, but like we are - 2/shelf, with jumper wires from one to the next on a shelf, then from other end up and down to other shelves to chain together up to 6 in a group. Makes wiring a snap. Word to the wise - do NOT be looking anywhere near them when you turn them on - VERY intense at close distance. Note these come in both natural sunlight and a very pinkish-purple light tube version (white light working well for us for flower and corn and tomato starts), as well as in different lengths and square block panels, so be careful you are ordering the version and size you want. Couple of things not covered in the otherwise fair instruction manual - the tiny 3-lobed pieces of white plastic are push-in covers to cover any unused ends not used by jumper or power cord wires - otherwise you have live powered prongs exposed at the ends, a major safety hazard they do not talk about. The about 3/4" long 3-lobed pieces are jumpers if butting two lights closely end-to-end, rather than using the longer jumper wires. Also - the tubes come with a saran wrap-like protective covering that you need to peel off the tubes (without yanking the end caps off with them) - instructions say nothing about that.

I ordered a previous version of these lights and was thrilled with them. When I looked at purchasing more, they had been updated. They actually seemed pretty much like the previous set. They are EXTREMELY lightweight, which makes them a dream to change to different shelves or raise and lower as the seedlings grow. The light spectrum is perfect. The only reason I withheld one star is that they changed the hanging bracket. Previously there was a metal "o" ring attached to the brackets. I use parachute cord to hang them and the ring was easy to thread. The new one has a hole so small, I could not get the parachute cord in. They are also a bit sharp and a string that fits starts to wear after a few moves or adjustments. The lights are great, but the new brackets are not good.

I was initially happy with the purchase, came fast was well packaged, build quality was as good or better than I expected, came with more than enough connectors for multiple configurations. The biggest problem is twofold: the colour spectrum is not exactly what I was wanting, need more blue but without a harsh purplish/pinkish or overall bluish hue like other reviews were claiming their "white" version is, since it'll be used in my living area for growing mostly leafy greens. I knew they were soft white and they are definitely very yellow to the eyes - that problem would be overcome if these just had way more light output. Based on reviews here I thought they would be brighter but alas they aren't definitely not anywhere close to their claimed "1400W equivalent". I compared to a more expensive Sunblaster LED grow light rated at only 6W higher energy usage it's not even close, the sunblaster completely overpowers this one, so I'm going to splurge on more of those instead (of course the sunblasters cost much more and are on the harsh side but at least I'll be able to actually grow plants quickly). For someone just needing some supplemental light and not worried about maximizing production in a given space the value of these is excellent, the yellow version is probably more suited to fruit and flowering plants. I will probably order Barrina LED shop lights for my garage as I think they make a good quality product. Returning these was pretty easy except the plastic film packaging easily tears trying to remove the lamps from the box so repackaging them isn't perfect, and it took over a week from when the item was delivered back to their warehouse before the refund was issued.

Great Affordable grow light option. I have a north facing window and I don't get much sun in the winter. I have these installed in each of my windows on smart plugs and they provide so much light to my apartment. Makes the dark winter days just a bit easier to tolerate.

Works great as a grow light for lettuce seedings.