Quote Originally Posted by khyberkitsune
I can't really say who to go to for LEDs without being heavily biased, considering I design and manufacture LED panels.

I will tell you which ones to avoid, from personal experience and from reading customer criticisms. Kessils and HydroGrowLED. Kessils have horrendous failure rates, HGL is run by a scammer/snitch, ratted out someone on ICMag to the police, which resulted in their immediate ban and pulling of all HGL advertising from the site.

One thing you'll want to learn right now about LED - Anything more than 7 bands is typically wasteful, and most plants do well with just 2-4 bands, including cannabis. Of the seven bands, three are not in the visible range of human perception, and the other four are in red and blue only. Green is only a requirement for trees, from what I've been able to test. Don't fall for LEDs advertising the Emerson Effect without adequately explaining what it is - they're just marketing to you (ditto on the 9+ band lights I see out there.)

Also, avoid panels that are ultra-heavy on the red (typical 7:1:1 or 8:1 ratio) as you'll be sorely disappointed with the end results (not enough blue for bulk mass production.)

You can always send me a message on AIM or Yahoo or whatnot if you need to know more. My contact info is right below my name!
I appreciate your time. I may have to contact you after all. Don't know exactly when that will be. But it will be sometime in the future. Just dont sit around waiting for it, im to spontanious to give you a better time frame lolz. But ah, yeah.. I've been doing a lot of reading pertaining to LED's. I'm not gonna say which name brand(s)', but I've been reading some st00f. Some of these name brands I feel are throwing out marketing hype for they're products. For examplen, 400+% yeild increase? Seriously, I can understand a double increase "possibly".. But 4x? lolz, now I could end being laughed at and this could be true, but my brain just wants to laugh at the possiblity of pulling a double digit pounds off a plant lolz ie: Big Budz for example of a good yeilder. I've always thought greens would be best used for in dark viewing of your plants. Kinda like a night light cuz thats the color of the bulbs i use to use for my "night time" viewing back in the 90's. My only issue with green's in LED's is why should a panel have greens in it, that cost X amt, if I can go buy a few green bulbs for pennies for the same purpose lolz. I found a very long and greatly detailed thread by you regarding LED's from a year or so ago, couple hours ago. Good info pertains in that thread of yours. And here I thought I had some kind of great idea that no one has heard of before lolz
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