 Hey it's Alex here from AlexFergus.com and today I have my full review of the Advantage 1500 by Red Light Rising. Now in this review I'm going to be looking at everything from price to EMF to power radiance to my thoughts and feedback after using this panel for the last few weeks. We're going to compare it to some other panels in the market both from Red Light Rising and from its competitors and I'm going to run through my likes and dislikes so stay tuned and we're going to take a deep dive into figuring out how good this panel really is. Let's go! Hey so behind me I have the Advantage 1500 by Red Light Rising. Now Red Light Rising is a UK based company they have been in the Red Light Therapy space for a few years now founded by a couple of very passionate buyer hackers I've met them both and yeah they're both switched on guys and so the founders are not only very clued up and experienced in the Red Light Therapy space but they also are well-versed on all things health and wellness and in fact their website redlightrising.co.uk you can now go on and buy other via hacking and health related products which is very cool. Now this Advantage 1500 is part of the new new and improved elite range that Red Light Rising have brought to the market I think it was last year so previously they had their handheld devices I think was the Red Light Rising mini and their body panel which was called the full stack panel. Now that full stack panel actually placed third in my 2019 Red Light Therapy body panel comparison so it was it was a good panel it was quite unique it was more on the basic side you know it didn't have modular capability you know the numbers overall were good and that's why it placed third overall but this new series the Advantage series here is the new improved has a few more bells and whistles is meant to have a lot more power so obviously a lot larger so I'm really excited to see how it stands up in my testing today. The Red Light Rising are still offering their base full stack panel which is obviously a lot cheaper and hopefully I'll get around to testing that later on so be sure to subscribe and if you want to see more about that. Now before we get into the key specs and features and then the testing on this Advantage 1500 I should mention that Red Light Rising have three models in their advantage line this is the mid-range model at 500 LEDs they also have a smaller one the Advantage 900 with 300 LEDs and then they've got this extremely large the Advantage XL with 1600 LEDs which is massive I mean that's unheard of I think well I don't know of any other panels that big but you know today we're looking at this panel okay so let's look at price now being a UK based company most of the prices on their website are in British pounds and they include local taxes you can set the currency or location to America and you'll get a USD price without all the British taxes so that is what I've done and those are the figures I'm gonna relate to you now of course if you want prices in your currency head over to redlightrising.co.uk and you can find out the prices in your currency for your country so first things first the Advantage 1500 with no discounts retails at $2,781 yes that's right it's nearly $3,000 now that is a big chunk of money and that does make it one of the more expensive panels that I have reviewed and tested and we do have a discount code it is Alex ALEX and that will save you 5% if for some reason that doesn't work check out the description below in case that code has changed so that will save you 5% which is you know it's a couple hundred bucks and that's that's handy especially when you are spending this much money that brings the price down to $2,642 US dollars now for shipping if you're in the UK or most of the European Union shipping is free which is great outside of the UK and Europe then you're looking at anything from about $25 up to $40 so it's $25 to ship it to the US Canada Australia I put some random countries in there like the Portland stuff and it was about $40 so that's really good shipping rates I know they used to have free worldwide shipping but just due to the current craziness and shipping and whatever they've had to put a little price on there but still for you know a panel this big you know you can't complain $25 $30 which is pretty good so if you're in the US and you're using discount code Alex to save you the 5% and paying for shipping overall you're gonna pay $2,667 US US dollars and yes they do offer our financing plans over at redlightrising.co.uk as well now if you order one of these panels you're gonna be quite impressed with the package that arrives at your door not only does the box have the red light rising logo on it you've got some really cool stickers on there you've got the red light rising tape and when you open it all up you get some nice little info sheets and flyers that are you know help you have you get started right away so that is one cool thing about the red light rising I I haven't seen that level of brand packaging and any of these panels before I suppose juve is up there but you know the stickers and the custom tape I thought was a nice little touch saying that you spend a lot of money so you kind of expect a few nice cities when it comes to unboxing and the overall experience using and purchasing this panel so now let's look at the look and feel of the red light rising advantage 1500 so this is a larger panel than my typical body panel in fact with 500 LEDs this makes it what I class as a mega panel so I have my handheld panels my small panels or my mini panels body panels and then the mega panels it is 44 inches tall so I'm lifting that from the floor here 44 inches tall which puts it about 1.1 meters high 1.12 meters high and most panels in that body panel range you know your Biomax 600s and you do solos 30 centimeters 20 to 30 centimeters shorter than this so you are getting a little bit more length on the weight front it comes in at 25 pounds which is about 11 and a half kilos and that just makes it on the lighter side for a panel with this many LEDs I mean still it's it's quite heavy but you are getting a big panel but I mean some panels some smaller 3 400 or 300 LED panels come in around that way so so that does you know make it good I guess there are no grips or handhelds handholding points on the back or on the sides which is a bummer especially as it is a little bit larger you do get these chunky black rubber feet speaking of black obviously it is a black design and I do like that I think it stands out quite nicely especially compared to your regular white panels solid middle casing on front back and sides you have some itching on the side here with the red light rising branding on the back you have one two three four five six fans and you've got a couple of power points and your main power switch on the back as well one thing I will comment on is the power switch is a little bit higher than usual I'd say most around the middle now after using red light therapy panels for many years now I've actually found I personally prefer the switch at least oh the switch and the power point sorry I prefer them to be quite low in the panel most of them either in the middle or up reasonably high and I guess it makes sense when you're looking at it from a design point of view and obviously when I'm sitting here on the floor next to it yeah it's a good height but if you think about it these panels are typically hanging right so hanging quite high off the ground you know let's say I want to get full head coverage it might be this high at the moment I'm kneeling on the ground but if I were to be standing you know that's going to be about one and a half one point eight meters above the ground right so yes that means the switch is quite high you're reaching around not a deal breaker but you know it's a little bit further to reach but the main thing is with the cable it's further length that you need in that cable because of course if this is one and a half meters high the cable needs to get one and a half meters just to get to the ground now if there's not a power point right there and your cables only one and a half or let's say two meters you're going to use extension cords so I don't just something I thought I'd mention I haven't mentioned that before in any of my other reviews it was really only the other day I thought you know they just would be better down nice and low when we're looking at the back there you would have noticed that there were multiple power plugs and also some other plugs on the back those are there because this panel does support modular capability so that means you can get more of these panels either in the size or smaller attach them on top or side by side and connect them all up and just have one control panel which is one of the new features that the advantage has over their previous full-stack panels of course the modular support now has been around for a while and but we're like rising didn't have that function before the advantage panels came out you may also notice that the LED cases here are quite small and quite compact the chip inside the chip that the LED diode inside is the same that some people see these smaller bulbs and think oh it's a smaller LED it's not it's just the actual case it's just think of a think of a light bulb and you're in your on your ceiling right the filament inside or the LED chip is you know a certain size but the bulb itself you can get small bulbs or larger bulbs it's the same with these right so red light rising do have the smaller bulb design which makes it look a little bit different compared to you know your Biomax what you do which have the larger face also these bulbs do protrude protrude a little bit from the case so if you look at the side on you'll see they stick out you know maybe two or three mils and after you run your hand along the front you can feel and hear that bumpiness as well and because this panel does have 500 LEDs because of that smaller case design it means it means you can actually get more LEDs into a smaller area because if that use the standard flat wider LED bulb casing I don't know what the technical term is this panel would have to be much larger to fit it all in so that's going to make things interesting when we do test the power and especially the total power output over the size because with this many LEDs in a concentrated area you should be starting to see some big numbers coming through so I'm really excited to see those power readings which will test very soon overall from a design point of view I think it's nice it looks good it's nice and sleek in the black the little LEDs actually make it I think look quite unique and a bit different to all the other panels I have here in my home and the modular support the rubber feet on the back middle middle design and the itching on the side all good additions as well shame that doesn't have the grips especially as it is a larger panel but I guess you can't have it all well hopefully one day we can have it all so what do you get in the box with your advantage 1500 well you get quite a heavy gauge power cable you get the extension cables if you are going to use a modular support so I won't be needing these today you get the door hanging kit which is your middle cables that screw onto the top you also have a door hook here now this is a slightly different design to the regular door hooks we see you'll see here this has got a screw that can tighten up or change the width I often remark about this because none of the door hooks will fit over my doors here in this home so I haven't been able to use them this one though because of this screw which I've over tightened I can actually I think I'd be able to use it because I can unscrew this like so pull this out and you'll see now I have quite a wide space for this to go over my door so I think finally I've got a door hanging hook that I'll be able to use now of course you're not it's not how it's meant to be used you're meant to use it with that adjustable clamp but I don't know maybe just my doors here in New Zealand are a lot thicker than doors overseas but anyway the idea is you slot that on the top of your door you can then use this pulley system which may look confusing but it's really not simply put that on the top and you can adjust the height of course if you don't want to do that you can stand it against wall like I'm doing now and of course you've got those thick rubber feet so you're not going to damage your wall or you can get one of the red light rising stands now speaking of stands red light rising do sell two types of stands they've got their vertical stand which supports up to six panels so you can go too high and three crop cross which would end up in quite a large treatment area personally I've always thought that too high and two across is all you need but I do know some companies like Juve and Byron Platinum LED and obviously red light rising you know do support three wide and three high which is massive the stands from red light rising both the horizontal and the vertical ones cost $550 so that is it's quite expensive you know typically the stands are around that three four hundred dollar mark so five hundred dollar dollars is a lot especially because this panel is quite expensive though it is I think the vertical stand weighs about 20 odd kilos so it is a solid well-built stand which is good to know the horizontal stand is used for hanging the lights overhead so you know if you're lying on the ground or on a bed or on a massage table and that is also $550 but only supports two panels and red light rising also offer a professional installation and setup package it's quite expensive obviously you know there's a team maybe one or two people come into your home or office and it is only available in some parts of the world so you know personally I don't think you would need to use that unless you're outfitting a clinic and you've got multiple units and stands and you want it done all nicely but you know these these units aren't hard to install and sit up which will be covering shortly finally included in the box are these leaflets now I call them leaflets because that's exactly what they are you could argue that they're a manual but I I wouldn't really go that far so firstly you have a little thank you sheet and a bit of a promo sheet the thank you sheet as a four part quick quick start guide on there and if you're familiar with the red light therapy you really don't need a manual like you just plug in and go unless it's something like I don't know the new juice or the light part LED so be sure to check my first impressions and for full review video on that panel to see what I mean but with a reasonably standard set up that the advantage has you know if you've used panels before it's literally plug it in or where you go of course if you're doing a modular setup then you may want to refer to the info sheets the other sheet here is your returns and warranty and and safety information and then the third and final sheet is your I mean effectively instruction guide one page for how to set it up with the cables and control panel and the other page is for how to connect mobile units really that's all you need I do know you can go online to the red light rising website and download a manual I haven't done that I don't know if it's just the same as this or if it's got more information you could argue that this is a bit of a let down especially compared to you know say like the Juve and I think Platinum LED they have really nice you know A4 printed high gloss sort of manuals that don't only go into how to set this up and how to use it but also a bit more about red light therapy and you know treatment times in there all that information though is on the red light rising website they've got a really good website with all the good knowledge base and a good FAQ section but again you could argue for a high-end elite product like this yeah it would have only cost red light rising a few more dollars to get pretty much that FAQ section of the website printed out into a little booklet so you can you know you can have it here you can read it if you're new to red light therapy or you can flick through it when you're using it because that is a great thing about these panels you can still read or you know be on your phone when you're using them next up we're going to look at warranty and support so the advantage series of panels from red light rising come with an amazing five-year warranty that's profound and unheard of in the red light therapy space at least to my knowledge I can't think off the top of my head of any other companies that offer a five-year warranty it used to be a two-year standard and then three was the exceptional like wow that's quite amazing now you know five years that's incredible I suppose though when you are spending nearly three thousand dollars on a piece of technology you do on that piece of mind that it's gonna last and if something does break or you're faulty then of course you want to know you're going to get it fixed or your money back so five years is quite incredible so well done there red light rising they also have a 60-day trial period so you can purchase this panel test it try it play around with it if you're not happy with it you send it back of course you are paying the return shipping and they a red light rising do take a 15 percent restocking fee so some other companies have a 60-day period with a 20 percent restocking fee other companies have 60-day periods with no restocking fee so you know red light rising that sort of sits in the middle there I suppose though if you are wanting to gamble with red light therapy or if you're new to red light therapy you may want to start with a smaller device you know like even a handheld device which you can give like a hundred two hundred bucks play around with that before jumping into the big you know three to four thousand dollar mark like we have here with the advantage panel though if you've seen all my stuff and looked at the science and the articles I've written on red light therapy you'll know that hey it's it's well researched and it is very very effective finally red light rising do offer a free 20 minute call with their founders you can do this prior to making a purchase I'd assume you can do it after you've made a purchase as well you just head over to redlightrising.co.uk and you can book that call in you can also pay to speak to a medical professional through red light rising and this particular professional is well versed in red light therapy so they'll be able to help you with your your needs and situation maybe tailor a treatment protocol for you so that's all cool okay now for the fun stuff we're gonna look at power and performance so first up let's look at the LEDs and wavelengths in this panel so like I've said a few times now 500 LEDs they are single chip LEDs and three watt rated so some new panels are coming out with the five watt LEDs but I've tested both five watt and three watt LEDs and I think to date the most powerful LEDs I've tested were actually a three watt LED not the five so it is going to be interesting to see how these LEDs do stand up now this particular unit has 660 and 850 nanometers unfortunately that's the only option here with the advantage series they don't offer the multi-wave you know your 810s your 930s your 630s that a lot of panels are offering now so for instance mito red they have their mito pro range with five five wavelengths biomex platinum LED biomex range they've always had the multi-wave lengths light path LED you can get multi-wave that is a bit of a disappointment I'm unsure why red light rising haven't included multi-wave lengths for the premium product whether it's cost saving or whether they they just don't think you need it personally I do like the the extra wavelengths in the panel and that's what I use myself but um yeah maybe work I can reach out to red light rising and get some clarity around that decision I'm now going to test with my spectrometer here I'm going to test to see exactly what is coming out of here from a wavelength point of view and then of course we're going to do the fun stuff and test power irradiance and calculated power output okay so I've got everything set up what I'm going to do is fire up the panel I'm going to test the red light first just enabling red light I'll pull the camera down here onto the laptop and we'll be able to see um what wavelengths are coming through and then we'll do the same with the neon free remember it should be ideally the peak should be around that 660 mark for red and 850 for neon free all right so I'm going to turn this on red light first let's go okay so yes you can see uh the peak is 6 6 1.8 so um like if you see my other videos it's usually one or two nanometers off and just because it's not being on 660 you are getting all this other light uh actually right through if we go back and see what's over here you know you're getting that that first peak there at 652 and then it's jumping up right through to your 662 so that's the interesting thing with these panels it's not always it's not a laser it's not a straight line at 660 and nothing keeps side so you know if for instance 658 is beneficial you're actually getting a ton of wavelengths a ton of power at 658 in fact even all the way down to you know 640s through to 670 almost so now we're going to do the the neon for red reading and there we go and we can see the peak there is coming out at 846 so it's a few points short of 850 which is the claim but if we go over to 850 it's just starting to come down so yeah the peak is is a few points short but um yeah again it's it's pretty normal for what i've tested before okay so now we're going to test power irradiance now if you've seen some of my videos before you'll know how i how i do this if it's first i'm watching a review of my i've got a spektrometer here i've got a ruler six inch ruler what i'm going to do is i'm going to test peak power uh for three readings we're going to test overall peak power for both neon for red and the red light we're going to test peak power for red light we're going to test power for neon for red uh we'll look at those numbers so when i when i say peak power what i'm actually going to do is i'm just moving around looking for that absolute peak it's not the best reading because just if you find a peak at let's say a hundred in one particular spot but everything else is 40 you know like that peak doesn't give a true representation of what's going on across the whole panel uh to do that to find that fair representation what i actually do is measure nine points take an average um and then calculate it based on the surface area so i do a bunch of tests and bunch of calculations and um what i do with all this data as well is i'm putting together the ultimate red light therapy buyer's guide that's going to go over my website alexfigures.com so be sure to be on my email list and you'll be notified when that goes live and i'm going to publish all these results in one big database effectively and you'll be able to search and compare every panel that i've tested and owned i'm going to test them all and put all that data into there so you'll be able to go on and see how the red light rising advantage stands up against the biomex or the gen one ju for instance um so i'm really excited to publish it to get around to publishing that okay now back to this let's get testing so i won't be able to show you on here what i do is i just read out the numbers uh just because the light is too bright and i'm moving around so i'm gonna read out the peak power for both of them first and then we're gonna do the red and then the infrared all right so we got 50 we're in the mid 50s these are really what centimeter square 58 59 60 60 is quite a few 60s quite a nice steady reading going through here there we go so you're looking at that ee number at the top there 60.792 and you can see the two wavelengths here you read in the infrared now um typically when i move around this these panels you see quite a fluctuation so you'll see you know 40s and then 50s and then you might see a 60 and then back to 40 i was moving around here i started in the middle but even right on the edge it was high 50s 58 59 60 back to 58 even when i went up and down so that was that was quite interesting whether that is because the beam angle on here uh the beam angle for this particular unit is 30 degrees some others panels have 60 whether it's that like more concentration concentrated or um what i'm assuming though it's it's because of the tightly packed leds you get more leds in a more concentrated area so you're getting a more stable uh blended um irradiance which is good which is what you want and i will be testing for hotspot soon as well so that will reveal exactly what's going on okay let's do the power now for red light all right so 33 34 34 34 34 35 8 36 flat 36 2 36 36 is 36 6 all right so i actually ended up with a 37.1 hopefully you can see this on screen there we go 37.1 so i have to be honest with you that is a little bit disappointing uh red light rising to have made a bold claim and it's still on their website that this is the most powerful panel out there and that they've um improved all the components and drivers and it's meant to be a really high-powered device and effectively that's what you're paying for now on a per led you know peak power uh to put that 30 37 reading into perspective uh you know the light path led um panel i tested a few weeks ago a month ago was i think 48 for the red light range and the narrow probe was even higher um and i have tested other units as well and they're also you know in the 30 40 mark easy so that is a bit disappointing what what i do want to say though is like i noticed with the overall reading the numbers are pretty much consistent right through like everything was above 30s just as i moved around it wasn't those massive ups and downs that i'm used that i'm used to seeing so that is actually really cool i mean it's it's why i don't necessarily like the peak reading as such but so many people want to see it so i include it the interesting reading that the really good uh valuable reading that's going to be useful for making comparisons is going to be my um total power output reading so we'll get to that after i do the near infrared reading now so let's do near infrared peak so 23 24 24s 25 25 25 25 25.4 25.4 you're looking at that EE line up the top there so just like the red light reading it is on the lower side i mean it's not low it is a good really high reading uh but it's on the lower side compared to some of these other new panels that i'm testing just a little bit disappointing again though you're getting that consistent reading throughout hey so a quick update just before i was going to publish this full review video i actually received an email from the guys at redlight rising and that just had one of the uh advantage panels tested from a tested by an independent um like testing company now the panel they sent in wasn't this it wasn't the 1500 it was the advantage 900 which is slightly smaller but uses the same leds same technology inside the same drivers and all that good stuff so effectively it's the same it's the same width it's just not as long now they sent through the official report and i'll share this with you in the video here as well now what's interesting is the numbers are pretty pretty close to what i was getting on my you know two three thousand dollars spectrometer device here so if you remember my peak was just over 60 nearly 61 milliwatts per centimeter squared the data that the um lab came back for their 150 mil peak test was 65 milliwatts 65 and a half milliwatts ever seen a meter squared so a few points out but remember these guys are professional laboratories i'm a biohacker with a you know two thousand three thousand dollar gadget right but still i mean i think that's pretty good pretty pretty similar um the neat thing about this graph uh the report is there also shows peak peak power peak wavelengths and they all line up with my testing as well so we know we're on point yet but this also shows power levels at 100 mils right out to one and a half thousand um mils which is you know it's interesting if you're curious about that sort of stuff so yes this lab data was ever so slightly higher than mine um but there's a lot of variables that play here i mean again all i'm doing is blue tacking on a ruler at the right measurement and working around you know it's not super this isn't hardcore science right it's giving you a rough idea but i do that across the board for all panels so hey um you know it's it's it's kind of equal for everyone but i thought i mentioned that because you know it does show that yes my my meter is is pretty reliable pretty accurate um but at the same time if you want the hardcore numbers then you should be going out and getting a lab test and i i'd love to do that with all these panels but it would cost me thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars anyway i just wanted to add that in there for your reference what i'm going to do now is measure nine points uh it's the same roughly the same points on all panels uh six on the edges six through the middle i'm going to take an average of that and we'll share that reading which is probably more um of a reliable comparison then we're going to figure out the surface area and do estimated total power output in watts all right let's go to the nine readings now okay so after doing those nine readings i had an average of 52.8 milliwatts per centimeter squared which again is a little bit lower than some of the other panels i have tested now um calculating the total power output what i do is i take that the average reading which effectively is saying that's on average no matter where you are on the surface of this panel that's what you're going to be that's the radiance level you're receiving so now i've multiplied that reading by the surface area and that gives us a total power output of 95 watts uh a big number yes but a little bit lower than i expected especially yeah especially given the price point so again i've tested some smaller panels you know with less than 300 leds and i've had total power outputs around that a hundred marks some of them even above a hundred so given this has 500 leds uh is a lot larger panel you know size wise and um is a lot more expensive yeah you have to say that's a bit of a blow for really like rising in this panel anyway it is what it is uh before we get into the next category i want to test um what just draw and also do my hotspot test so let's do the hotspot test first okay so what i'm doing here with the hotspot test is i have the panel uh six inches i have the panel six inches from the wall and i'm going to turn it on we're going to see if you can spot any hot spots and i have to admit it's pretty good it's it's really good actually so you can see how that light is hitting you know there's a four five six inch concentrated spot in the middle here and then it drops off on the edges quite quite dramatically but there's no real hotspots now um one of the best examples for a bad hotspot panel is the gen one biomex panel um where you really see different colors part of the reason the biomex wasn't that good though is they do use multiple wavelengths so so not all it so the light is kind of spread out a little bit more because they're going to get multiple lights in there multiple wavelengths in there obviously with the red light rising you've only got your six sixty and eight fifty so so that is a good result for red light rising and to be honest i expected that after i was doing this power irradiance radiance because it was nice and consistent throughout so that is a good win for red light rising let's test the wattage draw then we'll look at value okay so now we're going to look at the wattage draw which is simply how many watts the unit pulls now i've got a watt meter plugged in here you won't be able to see the screen so we'll just have to read out the numbers here i see okay so we had 1083 watts when both the red and the infrared bulbs are going uh we had 600 watts when the red light was going on its own and 530 when it was just the near infrared reading so again if you're wondering why i'm measuring this once that wires guide goes live and on my website you'll be able to compare all this and some people want to geek out on all these numbers okay let's plug in all these numbers into my calculations and we're going to work out the value uh cost per led and cost per total power output okay i've crunched the numbers so what i'm doing now is looking at the discounted value so that's the price after you use discount code alex looking at the price you pay per led so that worked out to be five dollars 28 five dollars 28 effectively you're spending one dollar five dollars 28 for one led put that to put that in perspective the light part led and some other panels i've tested were all around actually they were all under five dollars so straight away we're already up in that higher price point the main figure i really like looking at though is the dollar per watt okay so that's dollar per not the watts i was just testing from a draw point of view but from the radiance the output the power output now that comes out to 28.1 that means you're spending 28 point 28 dollars for one watt of radiance which is which is very very high um yeah like three or four times higher than some of the other panels i've tested and that's simply because of the large price point on the on this panel and um the less than amazing power output radiance so that's what i keep saying you spend a lot of money for something that's unfortunately not that good on the power front anyway let's move on to mf testing so i've got my cornet electric smog meter here and this tests electric microwave and magnetic fields and then we're also going to test the sound i think the sound reading should be pretty good because it does seem a little bit quieter than some other panels i've tested okay so i'll test electric field first and there is absolutely no change on the electric field on the magnetic reading it jumped up to 0.1 micro test list now that's still in the green range here which is the safe range to put that in perspective the background reading is 0.03 so um you know there was a tiny little spike there but it was still well and truly in the safe zone of course if you get closer than six inch that does go up but i wouldn't be concerned about that uh finally we'll do the microwave uh i don't expect there to be any reading here because there's no transmitter built in but let's just quickly test that and there is no change for the microwave reading either which is great so to be honest from a neomith point of view you have nothing to worry about with this um sure if you're getting close that magnetic reading might get a little bit higher but it's six inch we're still in the safe zone let's now look at disables a peak that's 53.8 decibels which is actually um it's i thought it might be a little bit lower than that but uh that's not a bad reading and to be honest it doesn't really bother me it's more the pitch of the sound that i don't like um of course it would be awesome if they were super silent but uh with the power that's going into these units you need the fan it's more the pitch like some of them are quite a ear piercing were um this isn't too bad you do have six fans on here all right next up what i want to do is test the flicker rate here of the advantage 1500 by red light rising i've got my spectrometer which also tests flicker now there's two numbers i'm looking for here i'm looking for the flicker frequency which is measured in hertz which shows how many times a second the brightness on an led changes or or a light changes and then also the flicker percent which shows the drop-off and light intensity uh each time there is a change if there is any change now i say if because um in 2019 when i did my body panel comparison series uh out of all the panels i had red light rising their panel which wasn't this advantage one it was the at a full stat panel was the only panel that had no flick it was completely for flicker free so i know that got a lot of interest a lot of attention because some people were very passionate excuse me about um flicker so um i'm expecting this new generation panel from red light rising will also have no flicker and um i should also note that a lot of the newer panels i'm testing now in 2021 have no flicker as well so it's obviously uh something that manufacturers and and these red light therapy companies have put some um or have have uh you know been aware that oh which is they were falling behind in that regard so it's good to see uh from a consumer point of view so let's test this now and uh i'll read out the numbers surely there is absolutely no reading it for the flicker frequency or the flicker percent flat line in it zero so that is very good to see and uh let's be honest it doesn't surprise me but that is a good thing all right so next up we're going to look at operation how easy is it to run uh to set up you know to get into the advanced functions let's come around to the side and i'll show you okay so in regards to getting this set up it's very easy you simply get the power point plug it in power cable sorry plug it in turn the main switch on and you hear it beeps to when it turns on and then from there it's really just one button and you're away simple as that so very easy to get up and set up and get going if you just want the light on as fast as possible uh as for the buttons on the side uh if we work our way up at the bottom here you see you've got the leds indicating what wavelengths are enabled and running so at the moment it's set to both red and nairnfred i do like that because the nairnfred light is invisible there are some panels that don't have this function and i found out later after a 20 minute session that i only had the red light going which is a bummer um actually if we skip to the top now you've got a timer this is an old school screen you know some of these newer screens have nice like um you know quite nice screens um this is more of an older lcd screen which is a bit of a bummer but hey it does the job uh mode button here that changes between what wavelengths are selected so at the moment we have nairnfred red and both time changes the time it goes up one minute at a time all the way up to 20 and then works its way back up again uh i don't really like these buttons there's no vibrational give to it like i like it more of a physical touch button uh though it's not as bad as the light part the led panel um which is just horrible um you do get the beep so you know it's going up but it's a bit time consuming like if it's set to five and you want to get all the way to 20 oh jeez you know you can't just rapid press it you can't or you can't hold it there we go i didn't know that okay so you can't just hold it down which is good um yeah hey just not into the word but i just thought i mentioned that and then of course okay and off we go and the timer counts down once it runs out it turns the unit off so overall i mean it's pretty simple to use in fact um i like things uh you know some of the panels out there are very confusing to run and it yeah it gets me going a little bit uh get a bit frustrated with it whereas this is a nice easy to use design uh it is an improvement from the full stack design which didn't have all this built in a timer and all that um but saying that it is still lagging compared to some of the other control panels we have on the market today okay so we're coming up to the end of this video before i wrap up i do want to share my thoughts uh and compare it to some other products on the market and then of course go through my likes and dislikes as i've been using red light therapy for so long now it's not like i use one of these panels and straight away i'm like oh my god you know my x and panes are gone or i'm sleeping better or recovering better because yeah i really need well the thing is i know red light therapy works and most of these product timing all of them all of them are going to work it's just a matter of what bells and whistles do you want what has the best value what is the safest to use so there's been no radical like oh my god i use this and my cognitive function improved or anything nothing at least that i can tell and plus it's only been two or three weeks one other thing i should have mentioned earlier is red light rising do offer a rent a light function which is quite neat i haven't seen any other companies do this so you can go in and just rent one of their lights i think you can get the smaller ones you know you spend a little bit of money trying at home or maybe you've had an injury and you want to try it and don't want the commitment to a big financial outlay now that's a great option and you can learn more about that at redlightrising.co.uk so before i share my concluding thoughts and go through the pros and cons of this panel i did want to talk about other alternative products both from red light rising and from their competitors so within the red light rising range you have the advantage 900 which is what i mentioned earlier it's a smaller version of this only 300 leds instead of 500 it's a thousand dollars cheaper though and of course it's it's not quite as tall by the way the 900 will be featured in my 2021 body panel comparison video which should be out soon i hope i know i've been setting this page just now so but be sure to subscribe and you'll be notified as soon as i do have updates on that because this is a little bit bigger this goes into the mega class the 900 is in the body class and you could also go down to the full stack which is their more budget baseline red light therapy panels that will save you it's it's actually a third of the price of this but you're only getting 200 leds so it's you know it's a lot smaller you don't get the timer and a few more few of the advanced features such as the module support and the stand option and i am assuming that the basic the full stack is also less powered but uh i think i've updated that slightly from when i tested it so don't quote me on that otherwise you can go bigger you can go up to the advantage xl which comes in at $12,000 and has 1,600 leds yes 1,600 leds now um at that price point you're probably better off just getting three of these and a stand and uh yeah and i mean you're coming in under 10 grand that way and you're getting 1500 leds or you spend 12 grand and it's all in one uh but to be honest from a price per led point of view that's getting quite expensive so yeah i mean i don't know it's hard to justify that sort of money on a red light therapy panel to be honest but hey that's an option as for competitive products well if you look at mitered and the platinum led panels uh you can get their 300 led panels for about maybe under half the price of this yes it's less leds but uh i think the power output on those panels is actually going to be the same if not higher than this and i will be testing those panels in time so be sure to subscribe i think next up on my schedule is the mito mito read mito pro 1500 so i'll be doing this full test that i've done here with the red light rising panel with with that so be sure to subscribe for that um so for half the price you know get a few you get a smaller treatment area but um you know it's probably better value for money in fact you could get two of them to buy maxes or two mito red panels and um and get the stand and clip them all together and you're probably still going to be spinning less than you would if you bought this outright so you know plus you get in the multi-wave those panels with platinum led and mito red have four or five wavelengths with this only have two so you know it's you've got a factor on all these things when you um when it comes to buy a red light panel if you're fixed on getting an all-in-one panel you know you don't want to clip them together and you just want one big panel then you could look at rug rug red light now they have the rug mx panel now this comes out at 600 leds which is a hundred more than this and um it actually is a few hundred dollars cheaper than the red light rising panel as well though i'm yet to test that panel so i don't know what the power output was like and i don't know what the performance is like so uh hey it's just another thing to check out though why you are shopping around i think that's pretty much a wrap uh what in summary i don't want to share what i do like about this panel and what i don't like let's start with what i like what i like is the warranty five years warranty is you know that's it's a whole new level in terms of red light therapy panels and it's it's good to know you know you're spending a couple grand you know hey if anything goes wrong you got that five year warranty which is quite amazing so that's what i'm really like rising for for utilizing that five year warranty period i know it's going to put a bit of pressure on some other companies now which is good secondly i do like the fact that you can get on a on a free call with the founders i know light path led do something similar um you know i think it's a really great great feature and something that the smaller companies can do you know i don't think juve would ever allow a free 20 minute call with the founders because um they're just you know they're from a sales point of view like that just that'd be so busy so it is a nice little uh value add that some of these smaller companies can do and you know you might get on that call and talk about other things not related to red light therapy you might talk about sleep or biohacking so that's that's really cool but of course if you're curious to know what panels best for you or how to get the most out of these panels then those those calls are going to be invaluable as well um thirdly i do like the design i think it looks nice uh the black design with the smaller led casings if that's the prior proper term uh you know it does look nice hanging or leaning against the wall so yeah another good pro on that front oh one of the positive i forgot to mention about this panel was how consistent the light power is or the radiances across the panel um i mentioned that as i was testing as i was looking for peak power and we saw it with the hotspot test as well it's a nice blend of light it's nicely balanced uh is the right word there's no massive peaks and hotspots and um weak points which is good it means no matter where you're positioning yourself in front of this panel you are getting a nice balanced trim in here so that is something that's really good and i think it's going to be something that we're going to see other panels having to you know having to really um improve because some panels might have some awesome numbers from a power point of view but that lights all over the place so as for the dislikes well the first thing is for an elite panel in a high price panel you're only getting two wavelengths uh i really do like those other wavelengths that have been incorporated in some of these newer panels so that is a bit of a bummer i know some other companies offer it as a add-on light path led you can you can go with the basic 6x850 or spend more and get the multi-wave uh like way likewise with mitro red the control panel is on the simpler side it's not necessarily a bad thing because as i mentioned before i do like simple but um you know some of these new panels coming out have some advanced features whether it's pulsing or you know syncing with your phone to do fancy things or ambient mode background mode um built-in alarm clocks what else do we have out there touch screen panels all these sort of things so you know you could say at a $3,000 price point you'd be expecting something a little bit more advanced than what's on there finally and this is the biggest lead down of all is just the value it's a lot of money for something that isn't it's just a lot of money i don't really know what to say it's a lot of money when you can get other products that have higher power output more wavelengths more bells and whistles for the same worth not cheaper price so yeah because of that i don't know like it's it's really it's a bummer i mean if this was you know a thousand dollars cheaper it would be a really good really good all-round panel and it would probably do well when i do compare this panel to other panels in my applies guide and future comparison test it will be interesting to see how the 900 performs in my comparison i would say based on these numbers now it's probably not going to replicate read like rising's third place that it got a few years ago just because the price has gone up and um the power power is falling behind now when we compare it to some of the panels on the market overall though if you're in the uk or in europe and you want a local uh you want to use a local company and you don't want to worry about customs and and having to potentially send a panel back you know across to america if something goes wrong then read like rising is something you should check out um and the advantage panels you know great products they are great panels that are going to do what you want to read like therapy panels to do help with the recovery and all the other good things that read like therapy does it's just at the end of the day it just comes down to where you best to spend your money can you spend your money elsewhere and get the same or a better product hopefully this video has helped you make more of an informed decision and answer some of those questions again i will be doing some more comparisons and publishing a ton of data over at alexfigures.com so be sure to jump on my email list if you did want to buy one of these panels hit up to read like to read like rising.co.uk and intercode alexaalex that will save me five percent it gives me a little bit of a cut back but it helps me to produce these videos and do more of them so uh i'm gonna leave it there and i'm going to pack up and we're going to move on to the next review and i'm going to start testing that panel and a couple weeks time we'll be publishing that and again i believe that's going to be the mito read mito pro so stay tuned for that