 The Hive Max Red Light Therapy Panel by BlueBlox has just arrived at my door so I'm going to unbox it, we're going to have a look at it and I'm going to share my first impressions. Hey guys, Alex here from AlexFegers.com and literally an hour ago this box just turned up. This is the Hive Max Red Light Therapy Panel by a company called BlueBlox. Now BlueBlox are an Australian based company however they ship all around the world and I know they've got quite a big following and customer base over in the States which is awesome. Now this company has been around for a few years and they have some very cool blue light blocking glasses. In fact there are some of the best lenses on the market from a blue and green light filtering point of view which is great. However about a year or two ago they also entered the Red Light Therapy space. Now if you have watched my work over the years or the last few months at least you've probably seen one of their products included in my videos and that was the BlueBlox Hive which is this little handheld battery Red Light Therapy device. Now this panel which I have here beside me is the flagship Red Light Therapy product. It is the Hive Max like I said earlier. It is the largest panel, 200 LEDs, 5 watt LEDs emitting both 660 and 850 nanometer light. The panel comes in at a really good price, $1062 USD but I've got a 15% discount code to share with you guys. So their code is alexalex and that will save 15% off this panel. Plus I think it works on any other products on their website so be sure to head over to the website and have a shop around. Now so when you apply that discount code it brings the price of this panel down to just over $900 which is really good value for a large panel. Once you're under that $1000 I think we're at a good price point. And even better than that I said yes they're an Australian company but they do offer or they ship everywhere across the world but they do free shipping as well so you pay $900 bucks for a panel ship to your door which is really cool. But enough about that what I want to do today is I want to unbox this panel. I haven't used or seen one of these panels before this design. I'm going to share my thoughts and feedback on the design, how it looks and then also we're going to fire it up and I'm going to share my feedback on how it operates, how it runs. Then what I'm going to do is I'll wrap the video up. I'm going to test this panel. I'm going to use it for a few weeks myself and then I'll come back and do a full review where I get out all my gizmos and gadgets and we'll test the power, the flicker, the EMS, the sound and I'll share my own personal use but that will come later on. Be sure to subscribe if you want to check out that review. In the meantime today what I'm going to do is a quick unboxing, first impressions and share my initial thoughts. Alright so there's nothing super special about the box. I was expecting this parcel so I knew as soon as it turned up what it was. In fact the only way to identify what it is is when you look at the shipping stickers here which have blue blocks and then we've got a little sticker here which has HiveMax so nothing really special on the boxing front. Always a little bit of a let down. I can understand why companies don't spend too much time on it but I don't know I kind of like seeing some branding on the box. Alright I'm going to open it up and we'll get it out and see how it looks. That's out of the box so I've got to smile on my face because this is, it's very light, it's weird. I've only encountered a panel being this light before when I opened the Jim3, the new Jim panel because that's like a plastic frame. This is metal but it's very light. I think I saw on the website it was 80kg. In fact you kind of think that initial impression is like oh it's a little bit cheap because I'm so used to heavy ones. Of course that's not necessarily the case but it is lighter. So interesting. As you can see it's a black design panel, the LEDs, nothing special on the front. Coming right to the edge which is good. There's no break through the middle which is also good. Some panels have those big clusters with a one or two inch gap in the middle. When you look at the back you have three large fans and you've got very little rubber feet in here. Very little ones but they'll still do the job. Now you'll also see that the power points are at the top, right at the top. Now if you've watched my reviews before you'll know that I personally hate that. I think it should be down the bottom right because otherwise it's just extra cable hanging. Now the good thing is the guys from BlueBlocks have said hey look this panel is going to arrive we're updating it in a couple weeks and these power points are actually going to be on the side. Now I don't know where on the side, hopefully it's down the bottom but they said they want to do that so the plugs don't get in the way when you're leaning against the wall. I think that was the reason but that will be interesting so we'll ignore that for now. It does have the modular clips on the top. It's got the modular capability so you can get another one of these and hang it on the top. However it doesn't have a data plug on the back so you can't daisy chain them and control it all from one control panel. You have to do it independently. Which to be honest isn't a deal breaker. I mean I've got panels that I have stacked on top of each other and I've never linked them up. I just manually press start on both of them. It's worth pointing out. On the side we have a unique control system. I haven't seen this set up before so we'll come in and take a closer look at that shortly. We do have the BlueBlocks Hive logo and branding on the side here. While it was included in the box we have a power cable here which has a local Australian and New Zealand plug. We have the standard door hook. We've seen many times. The standard pulley system. We've seen many times. Hooks for the top. For hanging it off the top. Seen that many times. Eye glasses. All your standard stuff we see over and over again. And then that was it. Oh we did have this little card. Yeah that was it from a manual point of view. So unfortunately you have to scan the code or hit the address to download the manual. I mean it's a pretty straightforward unit but again I've said this over and over. I'm used to using these panels. If you're buying this for the first time you need a red light therapy or you're buying this for your grandparents or something. It would be nice just having a few pages. I save a few pages and then I go ahead and criticize the panels that only have one or two pages included in it. But one or two pages is better than this. I mean I know everything's online but it doesn't hurt to have a little flyer of how to set it up and how to use it. But of course I'm sure they've got a great manual online so it's not the end of the world. This was right on top of the box when I opened it up so you wouldn't miss it. And then I've also got a little promo on the back there which is neat. What I'm going to do now is plug it all in. We'll fire it up, see how it runs and see how that control system works. Yeah so I can see why they're changing where that power socket goes because I'm leaning against a wall like that. Those rubber feet are made redundant because it's having the plugs. So it's all plugged in now. What I'm going to do is I'll bring the camera in close and we'll have a play with this control panel. So I'm going to turn the power on, lights up red. I like this simple to use, simple to know what's going on, big switches. This is what all the older panels used to have on the back. Sometimes they had them on the front. I don't know it's kind of clunky in that but hey it's just easy to use and you know it's working. Alright so this has come up with off. Let me play around here up and down. There's no feedback on these buttons. Okay I don't know what's going on. There we go, I hit red and red lights going. I wonder if there's a dual chip LED's. Because what's interesting, when I put on the red, I just have red light going and all the lights are on. And then if I hit never red and turn the red off. I know you can't see never red but you can see a very little glow. Not all glowing. So these might be dual chip LED's which is very, very neat. And I'm sure that wasn't on the website. Well that's awesome if it is. Yeah I mean that's really exciting because I don't know if I've seen a dual chip LED panel that's had 660 and 850. They've always done a little bit differently. So that's really interesting. Alright so back to the control panel. As you can see here we've got near infrared going at the moment so the near infrared green light is on. If I hit red that brings on the red LEDs and you can see the red light going here. It simply says it on which we know it's going and there's no timer going. If I press up or down it starts the timer. You can put that all the way up to 30 minutes. I'm assuming the lights will turn off at the end of it or you can just leave it on run. I'm sorry on and it will just run without a timer. Now this will be the main power switch. If I turn that off it cuts power to everything. Otherwise you can leave that on and turn it on and off here. So to be honest it's actually quite a simple yet effective control system. Main power switch. You've got a built-in timer, red near infrared and you've got indicators as to which one's going or not. I mean it doesn't look pretty. You know the white and this big clunky switch here but it works. I mean it's just easy. It's all you really need in a red light therapy panel to be honest. The timer. The ability to switch between red and near infrared. The ability to adjust the time and yeah that's really it. If I was getting picky I mean I've already talked about the design downfalls I guess. But if I was getting picky it would be nice to have on there just counting up you know. So if you didn't want a timer you didn't want to set it to 20 minutes whatever. You just wanted to have a quick session. At least you could look at it after a few minutes and be like oh I've done 5 minutes or 10 minutes whatever. Because obviously we know it's on because the screens get glowing and so is this switch. So that's probably the only thing I would criticise from a practical use point of view. Otherwise yeah pretty good. Okay so I think I've covered everything. In a nutshell it's a light panel. It's a good size, 200 odd LEDs. Only 660 and 850 nanometers. 5 watt LED chip though. We should be seeing some good numbers. Though 5 watt doesn't always mean the best but it should be up there. Reasonably easy to use. Straight forward control system. Accessories all your basic stuff. Nothing fancy there. No manual you got to go online for that. But a good price. $900 after discount code Alex with free international shipping. I think this panel should review really well. And in fact I'll be using this in my 2021 comparison series. So I'll be comparing this to the new Juve version 3. The Mito Red Mito Pro. The new Biomex 900. And I think with that price point and these LEDs being dual chip. It could do a ride especially with the free shipping as well. So be sure to subscribe because I will be concluding this in that review. And I will be doing a dedicated review and testing this panel later on. I like to use the unit for a few weeks at least. Or at least a few sessions before I do those reviews. Just so I can come in on how the control panel works. If anything breaks. If there's anything weird or really good. Like if I notice my health or recovery is different. I like to bring all of that information into the reviews. Rather than just looking at the specs and features. That you can find out on the website pretty much. So be sure to hang around for that. And they'll be out in a couple of weeks. In the meantime check out all my other videos. And be sure to check out my red light therapy data sheet. I'll put a link to that below. Because I've put all the panels I've tested. I've put all the data into that spreadsheet. And I've also got a really good comprehensive red light therapy buys guide. So if you need a red light therapy and you want to buy a panel. Go check that out as well. Alright guys. I'm actually going to go and test the EMF levels. With all my handheld red light therapy panels next. So I'll be updating my spreadsheet with that. 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