 Hello and welcome back to another round in the red light body panel showdown Comparison piece that I'm doing. So my name is Alex from AlexFergus.com. This is part three I believe of this showdown comparison piece in part one We looked at price and shipping costs in part two We looked at non native EMF fields emitted from these devices and today in part three We are looking at power output or irradiance from these panels. What are these panels? Well, you can see them behind me I've got six of the markets leading most popular red light therapy body panels on the right here I've got the mitre red mitre max here. I've got the red therapy Red Rush 720 Black one here is the mitre HQ mitre panel. You think by now I remember all the names, but I haven't Here I have the platinum LED therapy biomex 600 the juve solo is next to that and then finally We have the red light rising Full stack, which is the big taller. So we've already looked at a few key points emf being one and of course price probably the biggest Question Shopping point, I guess is the power and it's people want to know well What's what's the most powerful panel or how much power does it emit now? This is a very confusing controversial Topic or subject if you haven't read my article on red light therapy head over to Alex weeks.com I've got a pretty intense article there It's um everything you need to know about red light therapy and I go into power going to radiance I go into what you need to look for when it when you're buying devices and what's important and everything like that However, I need to be clear that there is still a lot of uncertainty around this alright just because um A study shows that X amount of power applied to a scenario helps. There's a lot of variables at play Distance half the frequency of that Dosage does it has been having systematic Systemic effects for instance so many things alright and um The other tricky thing with measuring power is as you go further away from the panel Yes, the power level drops off But all these panels have their LEDs work in unique ways and they have things called beam angles Alright, so some of these panels have quite targeted beam angles Meaning that the power is the light the photons are going directly in front of the LED I just have quite wide meaning being the angles meaning that it's you know The further away you go the wider the area which means a smaller panel actually treats a larger area But of course the consequence of that is The power level is lower because that same amount of power is spread out versus the targeted approach where it's all Concentrated now there's pros and cons of everything You know me if you want to spot treat a sore knee you want that targeted approach If you want to do the whole body and you can only afford one panel you might want a wide beam angle We're gonna look at beam angle later on in this series, I'm not gonna score on the angle because Some people want the wide some people want narrow so you know I'm not gonna give points to that because one isn't better than the other But I will I will read out what these panels have um, but because of that issue It's too difficult for me to measure power levels at a distance So for instance six inches or 12 inches or whatever Because I don't know the beam angle and I don't think it's fear to the panels because if I do that What's gonna happen is the panels that seemed all the light directly in front and concentrated are gonna get better results and then that's gonna show up saying that this panel the results are gonna Make the assumption that that panel is more powerful when it may not be the case It may just be that the other panel was seen in all its light on a white spectrum And in fact, I know that these panels have quite different beam angles. That's excuse my little baby boy He's next door playing around. So I'm sorry for the background noise So for instance, it's really therapy have made it known that they have a white beam angle, which means they treat a larger treatment area at a distance so because of all that I was like, what do I do I? Can one use the manufacturer's numbers and just score them based off that However, some of those numbers are a little bit murky. They just say bigger, you know greater than XYZ It doesn't give specifics. I thought I could use independent testing because some of these companies have done independent testing on their power outputs, but then the issue is Do I trust that independent testing because it was paid for by that manufacturer and then other panels haven't done independent testing So then I'm like, well, what do I do there? so I didn't really know what to do and Especially because I have this device. It's a spectrometer that measures wavelength flicker and also power irradiance From light so I can turn it on right now and see the radiance from the light bulb with the sun outside With a fireplace for instance, which I've done by the way Alex figures comm you'll see a Article when and also on my Instagram Alex figures underscore coach. I've put a lot of these interesting photos up So, um Given I have this very expensive device and I have these panels and I want to test this thing called power irradiance What do I do? And then I had a thought Rather than testing at a distance why not test it right at the source in fact right on the LED Now the cool thing about this panel is the sensor So if you can see this here The big round thing here It's not focusing is pretty much the exact size of these LEDs Well the LED case in whatever you want to call it. It's about a centimeter just over a centimeter white And I thought you know what why not test right at the source now I don't know how accurate this is okay, but it's gonna be the most accurate way that I can get a standardized Experiment I guess a standardized number that I can compare across all the panels Because like I said, there's too many issues if I measure at a distance It's just not fair for this Comparison to do that because of the treatment area Another thing I didn't mention some of these panels and this this isn't a great thing But some of these panels may have what's called hotspots. So for instance those the way the LEDs have been Layed out and with the beam angles there may be overlaps. So there may be an area where one point is Double triple the power in it's then a centimeter or two to the side of that and that's because the beam Crossover and focus and that's what the hotspots are and I've noticed this Well, I've tested six inches and then all of a sudden the numbers rise and then drop off And I thought it was the machine realize now it's things like hotspots So that's not great. I mean, ideally you'd want a nice even flint But that's very very hard to manufacture. In fact, even if you did It's only going to be balanced at certain Focus points as soon distances. So for instance the manufacturer might focus it all in so you get a nice even balance spread at Six inches, but then if you go to seven inches or eight inches, you lose all that Again, it is very missy I guess the only way you can test this is to spend lots of money and get them all independently tested but even then I don't know how they're testing it because you have to test the whole area and Another thing is let's say that has a really wide treatment area and you're standing to read therapy We know that it had high MF levels at six inches So you want to stand at eight inches or ten inches and it might have a really wide treatment area And by the way, I don't know if this is the case. I'm just putting this out there for for Analogy so you can understand what I'm getting it here If there's a really wide treatment area and you're at eight inches You might not be getting half of that light. It might be missing you might be going past you in which case The total power the treatment area the jewels produced You're not you know, it's actually absorbing that right, you know, it's you're not benefiting You know giving the benefits of that light the only way I could really measure this in a safe like standardized way would be if it was a Laser or one LED and you measure that But that's not the case. So what I'm gonna do Because I want to know the power level because you guys want to know what is the most powerful panel Actually, that's another point. Sorry But I'm making an assumption here that more power is bitter and there may not be the case There may be too much power Um, it may be that the body has a therapeutic effect at a low power. I don't know I'm not getting into that now. Oh, I know some stuff and again I've covered that in the article, but that's not the point of this review The review is just to put all the numbers out there and then you can make an informed decision And I'm gonna score it in the process because it's a bit of fun and it's just some excitement So, you know lots of uncertainties and that's why I've decided I'm gonna measure right at the source And I'm gonna do two measurements all these panels do both the red light and near for red light most of them do 660 and 850 660 for the red 850 for the near for it Some of the panels do a little bit of a wider spectrum. So the Platinum LED for instance, we're gonna get to wavelengths later on But what I'm gonna do is you can select between the red light showing and the near for it And that's possible for all these panels So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna turn the red light one on test the red light get a read in there Turn that off to the near infrared light on and test the near infrared LEDs, and I'm gonna get a power Simple as that and my body is quelling but more so I'm gonna get into this and Hang tight and take all these numbers crunch the data, and I'll be back here soon with an overview That is done that took me a good hour or so to get all those results, but I have them all and the results were Quite interesting. We've definitely got it a big spread on the numbers here And I simply gonna shake the field up of it. So let's get into them. We'll start on my right here with the Mito-red mitomex So what do we have there for? The red light so we're gonna break this down into red light and in there for it Let's do the red light first, and then we'll come back into the never so for red light There and these ratings are in milli watts per centimeter squared. Okay, which is like the standard sort of power Radiance measurement Mito-red mitomex I'm gonna make sure I'm looking at the right column here 289, which is good. Remember, that's at the source. That's a solid number So so many numbers here to look at this top red therapy red rush 720 294 so a little bit higher, but similar And I should say there is a bit of fluctuation with the numbers, you know probably plus or minus 10 or so I try to get a pretty good average. I keep the settings on the device the same as well Again, it's not gonna be perfect. This isn't a scientific experiment It's just meant to give you a rough idea of you know power levels and stuff, right? So if it and the third one was the one behind me the mito HQ mito panel that was 275 so slightly lower than the other two next we have the platinum biomex 600 that came in at 391 So that's like a hundred units higher than the other others, which is which is good That was a big jump up next we have the juve Juve social. I don't know why I keep saying social It's because it's the Instagram handle guess I'm tagging them a lot. Huh, uh, juve solo they came in at 655 no, that's not the wavelength That's the intensity that is huge like that's massive I mean that's double than those other ones and that's still a fair feel a lot higher than um, the 391 on the biomex So crazy and then red light rising Came in rock bottom and by a decent amount as well. They were 163 so yeah quite quite a big difference between these two in particular The spread there the lowest is 163 right up to 655 so um rankings top to bottom Juve first place by far second place was the biomex the platinum Third place was the red therapy this one fourth place the minor red fifth place the minor HQ the black one and Then I really need to be standing and have a pointer for this don't know Actually sitting on the floor um and then a last place was red light rising. So that's red I Jotted down the peak When do we do wavelengths? I jotted down the peak Wavelengths for each unit. I don't even know when we're doing wavelengths. It's coming up It's coming up. All right, and then um Let's look at them for it. My turn my name acts for the near infrared Now where am I again? Here we go 193 so all these numbers were a lot less than the red light in terms of intensity I guess there's more intensity coming from the red light, you know 193 Red therapy 183 so might have read put red therapy this time round might OHQ 145 Platinum LED biomex 600 now This number was a little bit tricky to calculate wasn't tricky But I had to run some math there because they use three different wavelengths for their Nairnford they use I Don't have the numbers in front of me 850 830 and 18. I think it was It's on my site. I'll public or we'll get wavelength soon anyway. So I wasn't too sure how they did that I didn't know if the one LED was Designed in a way where it would emit quite a wide range And then somehow there was more power going the other that's what I thought it would be But it wasn't because as I measured different LEDs I did that with all of them just to make sure there were no hard differences with discrepancies I noticed some were had much different or had very different peak Wavelength output and that's when I realized every like six or seventh LED was a different type I mean it was never read, but it was a different wavelength So I know the percentage makeup of each wavelength based on the manufacturer stats So I took all the readings and I calculated a weighted average So this score was and it's the highest so far 276 which is decent. It's a hundred units higher than the other panel so far Juve which had the top red light scope score by a big margin also has the top near infrared score by a big margin 436 heart crazies out. That's that's huge So we've seen compared to you know the mito HQ 145 Red therapy 183 crazy, and then the red light rising 163 which is exactly the same as the Red light with intensity. I triple check that because I was like this is beyond the coincidence Especially when all the others had much higher red light and they're lower than infrared But no that was a number. So anyway, let's do the rankings from last to first this time mito HQ in sixth place red light rising in fifth place red therapy in fourth, mito red max in third and then again Platinum and second and Juve So let's do a total score for the irradiance section Let's go from bottom up and fifth equal we had the mito HQ with 11 points and the red light rising on 11 points because they were fifth and sixth respectively for the two different categories So 11 points each there remember Lower is better for the points And then we jump up to 232 there were two on its two panels on seven points We had the mito max and the red therapy the two over there both on seven points and Then in second place the platinum on four points and then first place coming out number one and both sections was the Juve So crazy, huh? That's a big spread. I was really surprised with this spread there of numbers. I mean Juve is way up Everyone else was kind of in the middle and then red light rising mito HQ as well I guess a little bit no really like rising down the bottom everyone else reasonably close Actually, no, you know what? They're all over the place All over the place you can look at the numbers Alex figures.com will be posting all these numbers You probably see them if my video editor Dave He's amazing with all that with all the editing skills here So I'm sure he's polished these up and made something cool and maybe you can see all the numbers But anyway, I'll be publishing everything including photographs of the readings as well So you can go in and check them for yourself and you can read you this experiment if you want Anyway, so let's do a total. Let's check the table for the total Whoever I'm sitting after what are we three rounds now? So we come up to the halfway point. All right From the last to first and last place we have the mito HQ Mitopanel with 24 points remember the lower the score the better in fifth place We have the red light rising And they were on fourth place previously so they've dropped down a spot they Have sorry 23 points. Okay. What do we got next in fourth place? Who have come up one spot here read therapy and they were fifth and now they're into fourth and Third place and these guys have dropped a spot 16 points was the mito read so they were second and now they're down to third and Now for first equal it's a tiebreaker so far Platinum and juice They're both on 12 points each crazy very crazy. So do for instance with third after the previous round and Platinum were first on their own. So do have jumped up big time and It's gonna be interesting as we go into the next round. So in the next round. We're gonna do flicker and sound levels Then we're gonna do size LED and wavelength. I'm not gonna score on size because I Don't know if there's a better or worse and the thing is You could have a bigger panel, but maybe the LEDs are more spaced out and again This gets triggered with beam angle and all that so I'm not gonna score on that I am gonna score on LED count though and the wavelength and then we have the warranty and other features and then finally we have the wrap up so Hope you're enjoying this Make sure to subscribe if you haven't already see your alerts as well if you're on YouTube because I'm gonna be releasing these other sections other rounds and they're coming days Follow me on Instagram because I got heaps of cool stuff going up on over there More behind the scenes and more insights and interesting features as I do all these tests I'm gonna be publishing them all there and Alex for your comm You can subscribe to my newsletter. I've got heaps of reviews like in-depth one-on-one reviews In-depth reviews on on these panels I've got a lot of articles on red light therapy If you don't know why I'm spending all this time and excited by reviewing these panels here Check out my article everything you need to know about red light therapy because it is Pretty cool. 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