Are your lights LED or halogen? My front LED strips give so much light, sometimes that's all I even turn on. Maybe brighter bulbs can be installed?

@lucky998877 thank you, what is the brand of yiur hood?

It's Zephyr.

I have an XO under cabinet range hood. It is designed and crafted in Italy. It has 2 bright 3000k LED lights at the back of the hood that illuminates my range top beautifully. It has dishwasher safe stainless steel baffle filters. I am very happy with it.

I have a Z-line with LEDs located in the center, and I have the same problem. They're eyeballs so I can rotate them, but then they're like spotlights against the splash. It's not a simple bulb change -- have to buy a brand-new LED set-up with Z-line. I know this because there were 5000K bulbs that came with the hood and I absolutely hate hate hated that blue-ish light so I tried to find 3000K replacements, and only way to replace is to order a whole new LED set-up (whatever you call it) thru them. Which I did, but it set me back $20 each for 2 bulbs plus shipping.

So yea, it's strictly aesthestics (in my case anyway), but the kitchen would look nicer if there wasn't a dark hole between runs of cabinet light.

I had a Cavaliere and had the lights on the back of the hood and did not have this problem. But the hood itself sucked. So I'll take an illumination issue over a performance issue on this one.

I have a Vent-A-Hood which has 3 lights at the front but they light up the entire top. We use the lights every time we cook.

@acm I hate that the stove top is not illuminated the same as the rest of the counter. I never thought to look at light positioning when buy g the hood fan. These are led lights and am very disappointed.

Having the lights in the front is pretty common for most hoods and you do get these shadows. Your hood lights seem very dim.

After remodeling my last kitchen I though about this and the solution would be to pull the hood out just enough to be able to install the same under cabinet LEDs along the back edge of the hood. Would work better with a hood installed between upper cabinets.