Trawling the web, I must have caught someone’s attention as I received an email from ebay for a deal on a Selens 150w cob light, for $100au.
It looks like a Neewer, only slightly different, has a better looking remote and most other offers for the light start at $150au minimum. The seller looks ok as well.
Could it be that there is a decent copy of the Neewer, with even more power for around the same price?
A lot of the details like the blue lock switch, mounting stem, back LCD and basic shape are identical to the Neewer SL-60w, but the chip does look bigger, the remote a little nicer and the heat flanges are a little more involved, all good signs. The little light on top is matched by a blank cover on the Neewers.
No reviews that I can find, but plenty of guarantees from Paypal and ebay, so I will give it a crack and see what we have. I may get another if it is what it says it is.
It is rated at 14000lm, compared to the Neewer’s 4100lm, whcih sound too good to be true. Something I am expecting is a very hot-spot prone light, probably with a noisy fan, but the way I use them (bounce diffused), that should not matter and may even be useful sometimes. If it’s not better, it will hopefully be at least the same as the Neewers for about the same cost.