Product review (5 stars): I was surprised at the quality of construction and operation. Nice unit!
Replaced an ikea hood with this one. This is much higher quality. The stainless is twice as thick hood covers stove top better. On low this hood vents twice as much air as the ikea did on high at near the same volume. It also fit into the same vent hole and wire hole into the shelf above. Must be a vent hood standard out there, so the install was a breese

I fried some oil at way hot temp on a front burner to test smoke capture. High cooking levels of smoke is captured pretty well, with perhaps less than 5% excaping once and a while. As the pan began to smoke beyond anything you would intentionally ever do I turned the fan to medium no smoke could excape. I continued to heat the pan till it was a smoke bomb wit no real excape then turned the fan to high.  It created a smoke tornado from the fan to the vent. Zero smoke in the room. Impressive. Noise levels on high are medium high. No conversation buster but not quiet. As I will be using it on low or perhaps medium when I oops who cares.

Lights are not quite even, tends to be a bit better lit to the front but not bad at all, perhaps 15% less light on back half of back burners.

The fan cover grills are not mesh screens, but just washable air vents. This is great as I don't want to capture the grease in the smoke but vent it out side. This means I do not have to constantly wash those stupid aluminum mesh plates. Just throw the vent covers into the dish washer once.and a while. The vent covers are easy to remove and replace, and are made of heavy duty stainless so they will not warp or bend with rough handling.

There are optional filters you can obtain if you intend to use this unit as a non venting install. If you intend to vent outside they include a nicely made plate that replaces the slotted half moon grill that shows in the pictures with a stainless blank. Once again this was made of thick higrade stainless so it will not warp and looks good in place.

I was very impressed with the quality of construction and materials, I am very happy with this hood.