 Hey guys Alex here from AlexFigus.com and today I have an unboxing and first impressions of another red light therapy panel. This is from a new company, well a new company to me anyway, it's a company called Solbaceum and the product is still in the box here as you can see, I haven't even opened it up. The product is called the Optics 180, now to be honest I didn't know too much about this company, it wasn't until they reached out to me and said hey you know check out our stuff and I was like sure here we go have a look probably in just another clone copy red light therapy panel company but it wasn't, I mean there's some interesting stuff on this site, Solbaceum.com I'll put a link to that below and not only do they have the red light therapy panels in quite a range but I've also got red light therapy bids including a red light therapy water bid and I still don't quite understand what that is so I'm eager to learn more about that. Anyway, this company was born in 2018 and they wanted to bring the highest quality red light therapy panels and devices to the market and also they really want to bring high standards of support and customer care into their business and the products they sell. So I have noticed that from the emails I have been getting from them to date but of course I don't have much experience on the consumer side so if you do please leave your comments below because I'd love to get your feedback on it. I'm going to test this panel for a couple weeks and I'll be doing a full dedicated review like I have done with various panels today so be sure to subscribe to check out that in the future. In the meantime what do you need to know about this panel? Well Solbaceum have five panels in their product range. The smallest panel is the Optics 60 and that has 60 LEDs. The biggest one is the Optics 480 which as you can guess has 480 LEDs so it's a big panel. This particular one I have here beside me is the Optics 180. Yes that's right 180 LEDs. That's in the middle of their range so they've got one smaller and one bigger than that. It's quite a good product range to be honest. You know I think it's a good range. Maybe three or four is really all you need but hey it gives the consumer lots of options. Turns out this is their most popular panel and it comes in at $995 so that's probably what's the most popular one. It's a good price for a good size. At the time of writing I don't have a discount code but I'm pushing hard to get it and that code will be Alex and hopefully we'll give you 5% discount on this product and hopefully any of the products that the guys over at Solbaceum sell but if that doesn't work be sure to check out the comments or description below because I will be putting all the latest codes and discount deals that I have going down there. Now as you can see the box is pretty bland which is never a good start to be honest. There's no branding, there's no stickers, there's no labels. In fact the only way I knew what it was was this sticker here where I see Solbaceum and I couldn't quite decipher all these other characters. Maybe you can. We can see it's made in China, there's one panel on one side and it's an LED light and that's it. When I see that it's always a bit of a bummer. I'm always a bit like is this just going to be another carbon copy clone panel. I hope not, maybe we'll be surprised when we open it up. That was probably the most painful unboxing experience I've had with any red light therapy panel to date. This is all about the Optics 180 and here it is. So as you can see it's a standard sort of body size panel, white colouring, middle case. It's different but it's the same. It's got a different look and feel to a lot that I've played with over the years but at the same time it's quite similar. White design, similar size. You've got your vent etching on the side with your control panel here which we'll have a closer look at soon. But front on you can see it's got these little ribs, little lips on the side. On the back we've got six fans. In the center here we have your power points and a couple of plugs, master neutral slayers igniting the rat. So obviously this supports expansion with modular capability, yep we've got the screws at the top here. Rubber feet, little rubber feet, a little bit smaller than the usual ones. And there seems to be three sections of LED clusters, there's a bit of a divide in the middle here. Personally I don't like that. I don't know why some panels have that, it must be a design like manufacturing point of view. I was going to say like there must be something in there that stops and put in a row of LEDs in here but honestly when I look in here there's just empty space. Which is just weird. I mean you're just losing a treatment area there aren't you? I'm not too sure why they do that. I know like some older panels back when I did the 2019 comparison had that design some were quite thick and I was always like hey it's not great. So this is, I haven't only seen any of the newer like Gen 2 panels, like with LED, I kind of remember. But it's not major but it's just worth noting. So let's have a look what was included in the box. First up we've got the power cable, it's good to see that it's got a local plug for me. Though the cable does look a little bit short which is rather frustrating. We do have some goggles, just your standard goggles that most other companies have. We have the hooks and metal cables which go on the top so you can hang that from the door hook which I have here which is your standard door hook. We have a pulley system, so all of your standard accessories but this is a bit different. It's a little remote which is neat. Yeah I've only seen that with one other panel today and that was the light part LED panel and I thought at first that was a bit of a novelty, a bit of a gimmick but I actually used it quite a lot. But that was because the control panel on the light part LED was shocking. Very difficult to use. Check out the video, my first impressions video on that one to see what I mean. So it would be interesting to see if this is useful or just a gimmick. And then we've got the manual. So let's have a look at this manual. Alright so a bit of about their product range. You've got the Optics 60, the 180 is what I have here, size and all that. Oh I've got an Optics 600, I thought the 480 was the biggest. That's pretty neat. It's always, I don't know, I find it a bit funny when you see the product range in a manual. It's like a bit of an upsell. I'm surprised it doesn't have like a price in the website right there so you can go and order it. And then you've got how you set it up, five steps. Another five steps, how to link them together if you've got multiple units. A little bit about treatment, distance, eye protection, benefits and then warning. So nothing really special there, in fact it's quite a basic manual. Okay so it's all pretty standard stuff so far. What we're going to do now is we're going to plug it in, fire it up, see how it runs, see what this control panel is like. That's all plugged in, we'll just turn it on at the back, whoa, and straight away it runs. Okay let me just get familiar with this control panel so I can turn it off. How do I turn it off, T, neon for red and red plus or minus. Usually you turn the power on then you have to start it up but not with this Optics. Okay so it just starts running literally straight away. As soon as I hit that power button on the back, which is this button here, so that's like the main power button, turn that on and the red light goes. Alright so when I press T there it just comes up this FFFF, okay that button there must be, yeah that's effectively your power button so the red neon for red that's enabled the neon for red, press it again, it's just red light, press it again both are running. So that's kind of like your power button, plus and minus, don't do anything, okay now the time is running. Yeah I've used a lot of control panels and I thought the light part LED one was just out of this world complex, which actually it is, but this isn't out of this world complex, in a way it's just a little bit frustrating that it doesn't work the way it should work. I'm surprised that when you turn the power on at the back it kicks in straight away. Actually that would give it power and then you've got to start it, you know you can set the time. It's not a bad thing, it's just different, you know you turn that on in a way you go straight away, anyway that is what it is, it's not too hard like you can get it running, you've got a timer on there, it does what it needs to do right, let's have a look at the face of the panel. Alright I don't know if you can see that, but there is a very subtle colour difference in the red there. That is because this panel actually has 5 wavelengths in it, it's got your 660 and 850 nanometre light which is your standard sort of red light therapy and your near infrared lights, but it's also got 630 nanometres which is another red wavelength and you've got 18 and 830, so you got 3 wavelengths in the near infrared range and 2 in the red light therapy range, however 80% of the power is going to your big ones, your 660 and 850 and even 40% split between the two of them. Then you've got 7% going to your 630, 7% going to your 810 and then 7% going to 830 or there abouts just under 7%. So you may have seen that subtle red difference every now and then where you have the 630 nanometre light. Now percentage wise you think oh yeah that's all good, but when you actually cramps the numbers there's 180 LEDs in here, so that means 72 LEDs are putting out 850 nanometre light, 72 are putting out your 660 nanometre light and then only 12 are putting out your 630, 12 are putting out your 830 and 12 are putting out your 810. That means you're not really getting much treatment in those LISSA, no LISSA is the wrong word, in those alternative wave lengths you might only get like an LED here and here and here type thing. So you're not getting your full treatment in here, no in fact you'll be getting 4 LEDs in this whole section there which are putting out one of the alternative LED wave lengths. So that is worth noting you're not getting an even split you know and a lot of these panels when they market at multi wave length you need to check how much power is going to those wave lengths and especially if you're in the market for say a panel that has 810 and then you find out it's only 7% of the actual power output. But these are 5 watt LEDs so it will be interesting to see what the power irradiance levels are like and I will be doing that in my full review so be sure to subscribe to learn more about that. Otherwise though, yeah I mean it's rather standard, a couple of wave lengths in there which is good, sounds and runs pretty good, let's have a look at the remote and see if that makes life a little bit easier. Alright well that's a bummer there's no battery included, I don't know when you spend a thousand bucks it would be nice to have a battery included in the remote though, that's a bit of a blow. It puzzles me why some of these companies make them so confusing, it doesn't have to be confusing. I mean you just look at the minor read panels or the platinum panels, platinum LED panels like they just it just works like it just works the way you'd expect it to work. I'm guessing what the T button does is just alternates between the timer counting down which it is now and no time at all but why does it have F like you just think of a broken something like why doesn't it just go blank or something I don't know and then that time is running anyway like usually the time is a link to when the unit's running, plus and minus, let's see how far we go, not the best buttons either. Let's see if we hold it down, oh it goes up pretty high, 30 minutes well that is good, but yeah it's an odd, how do you stop the timer now, I guess that stops the timer, oh I don't know, bizarre, but I mean to get it running hey the main thing is you just use this R in R button, press it once, red light, the Neo4 is running, you can see the little LED here is glowing, nice that they use a green one, often they use like red and you lose it all in the red glow, hit it again, boom, red light only, hit it again and now you get both running so yeah it is, it's easy enough to get it up and running it's just not like amazing, it could be done better. So overall the Sol Basium Optics 180, I mean it's a little bit different, it's got some good features, it will be interesting when we test the power output and do some value calculations, that will be really interesting because you know maybe it will be a standout there but you know from the moment the package arrives on your door, to the unboxing experience, to plugging it in and getting it going or in this case trying to stop it from going, it was all a little bit plain I guess, you know you get that remote and you think oh cool remote but there's no battery in it, all the accessories are just your standard accessories, the manual is more of a sales catalog almost than an actual manual, I don't know, I disappointed maybe, I was kind of hoping for something you know really cool and unique, feel a little bit let down but hey this is just a first impressions unboxing, it's not my overall review, I will test this for a few weeks, I'll use it, I'll see if my wife wants to use it and then what I will do is I'll sit down get all the gear out and I'll have a full day dedicated to filming, testing and sharing all my thoughts and feedback. In the meantime if you want to learn more about this Optics 180 I'll put a link below, you can go over to the website and check it out, you can also check out all the other panels in the Optics product range, be sure to use discount code AlexALEX, it will save you a few percent, otherwise check out some of my other reviews and first impressions and be sure to head over to AlexFews.com where I've got my red light therapy buyers guide as well and I include all the data points and metrics from the panels I've tested. Alright guys, bye!