hi all, Sad Sad news about Eshine and the GS320
thought id post this straight away as i have had quite a alarming fault with my GS320 unit
And it is very alarming indeed, so if you own one, PLEASE READ
It all started when one LED went out, so i swapped them over for another good LED and that went out aswell.
So, opened up the unit, and see straight away the main power cable was almost burnt through!!!
WTF??
now it was so burnt it was only hanging on and still connected by few single threads of wire!
what would of happened if the wire had dropped off and down onto the cooling fins of the LED below? <and that gets really hot.>
As the other end would still be connected to the power driver,,,,making it still live with 320W
yup, BANG. lucky for me it didnt.
I looked further into it and it had burnt out the controller board, Eshine admitted knowing about this fault,,,, that also worried me, how come they didnt withdraw them then?
Greed?.
They sent me a replacement part anyway so i fitted it myself, well i had to, theres no way i was gonna send this whole unit back to them!
i also fitted a new power cable and re-routed it through the Fans.
The main problem it was getting 'crimped' by the power driver above it when the back panel was shut, it pressed the power driver down onto the power wire connections to the controller board.
Making it literally melt, not good, could be a fire hazard!!!
we did inform them of this a couple of days ago but no reply.
So here i am, with pictures!
So, please please everyone who owns one of these, take the back panel off and check it!
Eshine dont seem to care, you want to see the reply i got from them when i said people should know,
infact i will
here it is
"From: Ivy Shine [mailto:ivy@eshinesystems.com]
Sent: 23 July 2014 13:03
To: Borg
Subject: Re: GrowSun 320
Yeah, DO post all the words without any modification.
If you post modified information, hell is where you will go soon.
God is watching...
Bye"
WTF??????
so, ive done my duty to warn people. My main aim as a tester is to also keep people safe aswell.
Peace Out.