If your going to spout statements like this, you'd best have FACTS to support them, not your opinions. Having owned QauntumBoards by
HLG since the pre-production models came out, I have never found there to be an issues with "hotspots" . If your burning a plant then you have your lamp way too close period. I've grown a great many plants with
HLG products, there are several reasons I've stuck with them: They have consistently produced the best results of any lights I have owned, my original QB 304 pre-production boards are still growing weed, i donated them to a family member who just completed his first grow with them. Next, I KNOW who's LEDs are actually being used, unlike many lights out there.
HLG sphere tests it lamps and posts the lab reports for all to see. They post REAL par maps for most of their lamps.
No lets talk about the "LUXX" lamps. NO PPF rating, no efficiency rating, NO mention of who's white LEDs they are using, yeah, buy them.... Synce is a great light. It's real target though is greenhouses and spaces where they can be mounted high. The optics/no optics debate continues, but the supposed gains of optcs is negated by the losses of the optics themselves. If they were truly of value,
HLG would be using them.
HLG's people put a lot of thought in their design. Unlike the Chines knockoffs, they spent months designing and testing various layouts, various LEDs, drivers, etc. Chill LED... built a good light, and they were caught lying about it's performance.. they'd never get a nickel of my money.
So if your preference for whatever reason is bar style lights, that's fine, but don't be calling a top of the line product's performance trash. Unless your goal is to troll, if so, we can have a different discussion. Post a PAR map that YOU create, in your environment and post it, with pics. Or admit your just talking trash for whatever reason. And yes, I now work for
HLG, but I was using their products for years before I took the position.