 Greetings, welcome to round four of the red light therapy body panel showdown. So in this round we're going to look at flicker rates and sound levels. From these six red light panels behind me, if you've only, if this is the first round, the first time you've seen this series, I recommend going back to the start, introduction, part one or round one, round two, round three or four. It is going to be a seven, eight part series where we take a deep, deep dive and test these panels on all sorts of metrics and do a complete comparison. Plus I'm scoring the whole thing and we're going to find a winner at the end of this in a couple of days or a couple of weeks time depending on how fast I can get all these videos done. So for those of you that have been following along, welcome back. I hope you're excited for this one. Flicker and sound. Yeah, very interesting. So flicker, controversial topic, I know a lot of people are right into it, other people dismiss it. I'm not going to get into the science behind it all. What's right? What's wrong? What's better? What's worse? I have got a pretty detailed blog on flicker over at AlexFrigus.com. I've also got a pretty detailed blog on red light therapy. If you're new to red light therapy, all of that is over at AlexFrigus.com. So anyway, flicker, if you want to know more about that, read that article first because I just want to give you the numbers right from these panels and then you can decide what's important to you. Some people might be really worried about EMF but not flicker or vice versa, okay? But I want to test them, I want to share the numbers with you and then you can go off and do what you want. I'm looking at the refresh rate which is measured in Hertz and the flicker percent which is a percent and the flicker percent shows the drop off every time it flicks, flickers, it shows the drop off. If it's 100%, it will be a complete on off which is not ideal. If it's like a very low number then you can hardly tell the difference between the flicker rates. Again, read that article for more. So we get some interesting results. We get one stand out, amazing on the flicker front. So yeah, if you are worried about flicker, there's definitely one panel here that is miles above the rest. So I'm looking forward to sharing those numbers with you. And then we're also going to do sound readings. So I've got my flicker meter here and I've also got a decibel meter to measure sound. The sound measurements are done at six inches, measured in decibels and some people will be wondering why sound. But these machines do have a lot of fans in them. They emit a lot of power, there's a lot of heat so they've got some big fans and it's not the most pleasant sound especially when you're a couple inches from it for a half an hour or so. If you've got multiple panels because a lot of these can be stacked on modular capability, it's a lot of noise. I have got an article on sound stress, noise pollution, again alexfickers.com so check that out. And that's why I want to include sound. So we're going to do two rounds of scoring and then we're going to update the total and we're going to see if the tie break between Platinum, the Platinumality Biomax 600 and the Juve solo, we're going to see if that tie break can be broken this time round and we're going to see how the other players, Mito Red and Third Place, Red Therapy and Fourth and then Red Rising and Fifth and then Mito HQ on Six, we're going to see if they can move up the ladder so to speak. So anyway, I've already done the testing and I saved all the numbers and let's get into it. Let's do the sound first. So again, this is done at six inches, Mito Red, Mito Max on the right here, 54 disables, Red Therapy, 54 and a half, slightly high, these two seem to have a lot of very similar numbers and the third and fourth in terms of overall placing, Mito HQ, 53.5, so the best so far. Platinum Biomax 600, sorry Mito HQ, your title or lead has been passed and Mito, sorry Biomax come in at 51.5 which is the lowest. Remember, lower is better for noise, for sound, Juve 56.1, so that's a lot higher, it's higher than all the others. And then, like you last, Red Light Rising at 51 flat, so they are the standout there. So from first to last place with the sound rankings, first with Red Light Rising, I think it's the first time they've come out on top, so good on them. Second place was the Platinum Biomax, third place was the Mito HQ, fourth place Mito Red, fifth place Red Therapy and the last place, Juve, which is kind of crazy because they're being ranked in really high with all the other tests. So that's sound. Now for Flickr, what you're most likely being waiting for, alright so Flickr results are something here, 71% at 100 hertz, so you want a low refresh rate, Flickr percent, not a very fresh rate, sorry, you want a low Flickr percent rate because that shows the drop off, okay. So yeah, that's not a great number. Red Therapy, again very similar to Mito Red at 74% at 100 hertz, Mito HQ here, 15% at 100 hertz, so that's good. Platinum, 42% at 100 hertz, so they're in the middle now. Juve, just got a little bit confused there, Juve, 19% at 100 hertz, not too bad and then I said there was a standout for the Flickr, here it is, red light rising, rising, zero, absolutely no Flickr whatsoever, no refresh rate detectable, no Flickr percent, nothing. Seriously insane, I've heard good things about the Flickr rate on these, on their panels, you know, people have done some tests and used their phone and whatnot and I've spoken to the company here and they said yeah they did a bit of work on getting the Flickr down, I mean it's beyond down, it's zero, there's nothing, which is incredible, so I'm assuming what they've done is like, somehow they're converting the current into direct current and I'm assuming, I'm wondering though if that puts out a bit more EMF, I don't know if the EMF scores are here to be, but maybe that's why, interesting, anyway, if you're worried about Flickr when it comes to red light panels, that's what you need to go for. If you're not worried about Flickr, then you can dismiss all these numbers and you can look at the other things like sound, EMF, et cetera. Alright, so let's do first place, 36th place with the Flickr rating, so first place by a long margin, red light rising, second place, Mito HQ, third place, Juve, fourth place, Platinum, fifth place, Mito Red and sixth place, Red Therapy. So let's do the total point for this round, for Flickr and sound. Bottom of the table was Red Therapy with 11 points, behind them, sorry, above them, equal points was Juve Solo, 9 points and Mito Red, 9 points, sorry, so many numbers here. And then we have Platinum with 6 points, remember Laura's better, Mito HQ with 5 and then taking out first place for both Flickr and sound, red light rising, full stack, 2 points. So this is really going to spice up the overall points table because red light rising have been down towards the end and Mito HQ also down towards the end and they'll come in second place for this round. So yeah, let's have a look. So from the bottom up, sixth place, dropping two positions, Red Therapy, they're with fourth, now they're down to sixth, 31 points. Fifth place, no raising up one from sixth, Mito HQ, 29 points. Then we've got two panels on third equal and that is red light rising and the Mito Max, red light rising with third last round overall, so they've held their position. But they're now sharing that with red light rising who are fifth, so they've come up a good amount here. Now for the top two panels, remember last round, Platinum and Juve were both on 12 points in first place, equal. Platinum, LED, Myomax 600 have retained the title, not the title yet, sorry, retained first place and Juve have dropped into second place. So they're on 18, Platinum, and the Juve on 21, second. So 18, 21, third place is 25 and then we drop down to 29 and 31. So it's still anyone's game, I mean it's still pretty close there at the top. We've got one, two, three, four panels within seven points. It's still close and it's definitely very close between these two. There's a lot of housing going on at the top there to take out number one. So anyway, that's it for this round and the next round I believe we're looking at size, LED count and wavelength. The wavelength is going to be very interesting. We'll look forward to that. If you haven't already, be sure to subscribe, sorry I'm all over the place here with the numbers. All I've got is charts of numbers and it's a bit tricky to understand at all. So forgive me there. If there's anything I've missed, let me know. Let me know what your thoughts are on Flickr as well if you think it's a big thing. I know there's some very strong viewpoints on this so please share them below. Check out that article if you want to know more about Flickr. Check out my article on noise pollution. It is a stressor which is why I'm including it in here. And who do you think is going to come out number one? We've still got wavelengths, we've got sound, we've got warranty and we've got bonus features like built-ins and what it comes with and other cool add-ons. So who do you think is going to come in at number one? Maybe make your top six ranking who you think or the order you think they're going to come in a week or two's time. So yeah, it'll be interesting to see. All right, I'm signing out. Bye.