Product review (3 stars): adequate but extremely bad lighting
I have had this hood for 5 years now. In general I like it, but it fails miserably on the LED lights. I have been playing around building my own LED lights using purchased LED parts and bulbs and there are so many better and easy options. I can't understand why XtremeAir went with such horrible lights for this unit. They are cold blueish and make the food you are preparing very unappealing and they are so dim almost to be worthless. I checked the voltage and amperage going to the lights and it looks to be around 10 volts and 2.26 amps. There is a label that says only use 12 volts and up to 2 watts. No one makes a 2 watt LED bulb. You get 1, 3, and it goes up from there. I can't locate the LED driver so I'm assuming it is on the master control panel which means if I tried to but a higher wattage setup in the housing it might blow the driver and then I'd have no light or possibly damage the entire board. If I find a solution I will update my review