LED grow lights... input please.

[hatch]

Turtle420, Whats Up. I read in the start of your trhead that you were working with a lighting company great news!!! You might want to add to your list of(nm) from 400 to 480 Ultra Violet, and 520 to 560 green,( they do need alittle) 640 to 720 some yellow to orange, You already know about blue and red. You need a mixing board in the resister @ relay circuits, So you can fade your on coluor for veg @ flower in all your panel's. They have 10mm leds they sould be the brightest. Good luck with your project, Good research and development is always one giant step forward for the future in growing. Hey it takes Pioneer's to step out of the box and be willing to take chances in failure to make strives forward. Good Luck, Later

hatch Reviewed by hatch on 02-02-2008. LED grow lights... input please. Hello guys, I'm exchanging eMails with a representative from a LED company. I asked him if they could produce a custom light for growing, and here's what he told me: Our options are as follow: 940nm, 850nm, 660nm, 630nm, 610nm, 590nm 570nm, 530nm, 510nm, 470nm, 460nm, 400nm and a total of 64 LEDs in the bulb. Rating: 5

[SnSstealth]

:thumbsup:It's great seeing all this interest in high power LEDs. When I started looking in the middle of last year there was very little to none. I believe with the long testing times and variables of lighting that we need as many collaborators as possible. My only caution on the adjustable lighting is during each separate test the ratio stays the same, one for veg and one for flower, ie. "10 days in to flower and there not flowering well, let me add this". Anything else would lead to confusion. After our first test is complete i'm thinking of adding dividers with diff. light ratios in each. However I'm not really capable of ordering individual LEDs and putting them together and I dont want any e-bay china lights. Supposedly HGL is going to put out a 14W cree do-it-yourself kit which would allow for some tinkering...gotta go check on the girls....

doughboy

P.S. anyone know where I can pick up a three month timemachine...lol

[hatch]

HI ALL, Ya'll need to go to http;//www.chauvetlighting.com and feel free to look at all the good light's. But on the Home page when the LDI 2007 BEST BIG BOOTH AWARD flashes click on the display, Wait for the real payer and watch the video and see the potintial and mix-ability you can get with the LED's. Later

[Opie Yutts]

[quote=SnSstealth]

Funny facts wind power, photo cells have yet to make ONE CENT.


Yeah wind & solar power don't workostexcuseme:

people are living off of the grid just fine...

One of my dads good friends lives where there is no power, so he doesn't have a choice. Invested about $12 grand in solar and runs everything just fine. It's not perfect, like he has to turn lights off when they're not being used, but we all should try to do that.

True, he's not exactly making any money from it, but he doesn't spend money on power either, so it's kinda like making money. It's kinda funny that if he were to move 10 miles in either direction and triple, or maybe only double his initial investment, he could be selling power to the electric company. That, I think would be making money. Why doesn't everybody over there do that? Oh yeah, maybe they don't have $36,000 laying around.

[Opie Yutts]

I have ejoyed this led thing and its something to do. Now think, if leds worked , industry would be doing it.
Industry wants the most light for the least cost. Industry wants the most light and lower replacment cost. Industry would stand to gain tillions of dollars saved. And industry still uses 48 in florsents, metal halide and hps.
Funny facts wind power, photo cells have yet to make ONE CENT. :yippee:The average loss is 14-25 cents per kwh. (thanks to the poor people trying to save money)(forget the inviromental problems)
Once again OHMS and WATTS wins, and the poor pay.
Note sky lab florsent lights, even they can not efford leds. They can, but not cost effective. Flat panel florsent lighting. Note they have a $10,000 a pound lift off weight cost:jumphappy:, even at that, its not cost effective. Mars systems cost are more and leds cant make it.
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Wow, I just read this again.

What a load of negative horse hockey.

Man I hate half-truths and misinformation presented as indisputable fact. When you're spewing all this ridiculous nonsense, it might behoove you to keep in mind that industry is using LED. A lot. All over the place. More and more. Read up a touch before leading the sheep. They can't help it, some of them might believe you.

[tomtomgrow]

sorry...new to this thread...think it has amazing info...two questions...one, can one use led in s.o.g and second, is a mix of hps and led better for yeilds then hps alone???

[denial102]

Wow, I just read this again.

What a load of negative horse hockey.

Man I hate half-truths and misinformation presented as indisputable fact. When you're spewing all this ridiculous nonsense, it might behoove you to keep in mind that industry is using LED. A lot. All over the place. More and more. Read up a touch before leading the sheep. They can't help it, some of them might believe you.

haha yeah, nasa is using it, along with the mercury lights..

[hatch]

Yes, The spectrum would be in a closer range if you add some colour with LED's to help supplement light with your HPS. Later

[oldsanclem]

IF leds were a usable , industry would have had them years ago.
They have more to gain than a pot grower, Brillioins of $ would be saved IF they were usable. Yes there are a few desk lights that have leds, but, does industry use them. GE,Siemens,AG,Silvainia(sp) have some of the best engeers going. I can only hope pot growers can prove them wrong. Wind power, solar cells (subsidies pay 14-25 cents per kwh to cover cost rich get richer poor get poorer:wtf,bio fuels (consumes more power than they net rich get richer poor get poorer:wtf:, battery power (1919 2007 80 miles to a charge almost 90 years later net gain 0,, ZERO net:wtf , Someday they will make,leds output to cost ratio:thumbsup:.
Believe me I am all for new things, my system is automated, remote control.
This thread is how old and not yet has one person come up with watts/grams/month
NOTE if you do make it work, you will make more from GE, Seimans than you will ever make from growing pot.

[Blumen]

I don't wonder why e.g. philips isn't too keen of LEDs as a general lighting...they sell lightbulbs, CFL and HID, which need replacement...over and over again. Other industries don't switch over because of high initial cost (lose money now, stocks go down, unhappy stock owners, big no-no).
The initial cost is the same problem that home growers have isn't it? So there is a bit more to it than just "they don't use it, it can't be good."

It has been done here with a couple of mistakes (no training, "killed" LED plant with HPS harvest water shortage?), but still.