California Light Works SolarXtreme 820 Reviews

Hey y’all, I’m in the market for a new light for my 5x5. I’m looking into the CLW SX 820, along with a few other brands. Anyone with experience with this company care to give some insight on them? Thanks!

Might be better moving this to the LED section @curious2garden ?

coreywebster said:

Might be better moving this to the LED section @curious2garden ?

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Good looking out, thanks!

Their web gives a 404 when trying to access info on that model.

Have heard lots of bad things about this company An on the site it says the unit weighs 16lbs? What the hell is it made of, my 3, 8 bar lights all run around 40 lbs each.

thumper60 said:

Have heard lots of bad things about this company An on the site it says the unit weighs 16lbs? What the hell is it made of, my 3, 8 bar lights all run around 40 lbs each.

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Thanks for the input, I’ve seen mixed reviews. It’s made out of aluminum. I would prefer to buy from an American company. I see some who swear by them and some who don’t. But I can’t seem to find the exact reasoning behind why they don’t like them. It’s never bc the lights just straight up failed on them. The Black Friday deal for the 820 is hard to pass up especially for the wattage for the price. Also looking at the MedicGrow, GrowPros, Spider Farmer, and Mars Hydro.

_EQ said:

Hey y’all, I’m in the market for a new light for my 5x5. I’m looking into the CLW SX 820, along with a few other brands. Anyone with experience with this company care to give some insight on them? Thanks!

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Just ordered mine. Supposed to ship this week but tomorrows Friday so we will see

_EQ said:

Hey y’all, I’m in the market for a new light for my 5x5. I’m looking into the CLW SX 820, along with a few other brands. Anyone with experience with this company care to give some insight on them? Thanks!

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Oh yes I have solar systems. Spectra max. Love their lights worth the money

_EQ said:

Hey y’all, I’m in the market for a new light for my 5x5. I’m looking into the CLW SX 820, along with a few other brands. Anyone with experience with this company care to give some insight on them? Thanks!

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They make all their stuff in southern california, even pick and place their own boards in house. They stand behind their products. Nothing but good with CLW as a company. George and Craig are solid dudes.

I used to run clws. They're solar storms. They were 200 watt lights with 5 w diodes heavy on the red spectrum. In my opinion, these were the best lights. They offered a a boom booster, a veg and I believe a full spectrum. I posted a few runs with their gear and the tent was always very hot. Canopy height was critical too as the 5W draw on the diodes seem to induce light bleaching quite often. On the positive side these guys were tight. I was on a road trip down to Disneyland. Ordered some crap from them and they put me in. Will call so I was able to just pick it up down in SoCal. They always pick up the phone no matter what and that means a lot to me. Currently I've been enjoying the Mars hydro SP 3000s running three of them in a 4x8 tent.
Cheers , and happy growing.