SANSI

What to know about shopping at SANSI

SANSI is a lighting specialist rather than a general home store, and the catalog splits into a few clear groups. Grow lights are the biggest, sold as pot clips that fasten to a planter, standing lamps, flat panel lights and tripod-mounted systems, and pitched at houseplants, seedlings and flowering plants. Then there is outdoor lighting — security lights, flood lights and fishing lights — followed by ordinary screw-in bulbs in BR30, PAR25 and A21 fittings, solar RGB pool lights, and a home line covering garage lighting along with UV and red-light panels.

On price, grow lights run from about $29.99 to $169.99, pool lights from roughly $89.99 to $179.98, and bulbs from around $39.99. The company says it has been making LEDs since 1993 and builds its products around a patented ceramic LED design, and it advertises warranties of up to five years — worth checking on the individual product page, because the length varies by line rather than applying across the range.

The most useful thing on the site is the Grow Light Planner, a selector that narrows the range by what you are growing and the space you have. It is worth using before you shop, because the specification that matters for a grow light is coverage area and mounting style, and those are easy to get wrong from a thumbnail. For the bulbs, check the fitting code against your existing fixture first — BR30 and PAR25 are not interchangeable.

Shipping is advertised as free across the US, Canada and much of Europe. Seasonal demand tends to peak for grow lights in late fall and winter, when daylight drops and indoor growers add supplementary lighting, so that is the window where discounting is most likely.

— MoneySaverCodes Team