"Full spectrum" led questions...

Nugachino

Nugachino

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Ugh. If you spend the right amount of cash you get a decent fekkin light that does exactly what it says it does. Without being a total crock of shit.

A cheap Chinese light that cost $60 and claims to be 150w is probably like 45w from the wall.

Where as a $400 light that claims to be 200w with bloom and veg switches. More than likely does exactly what it says it does. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And if you're vaguely technically minded. You could probably build a 200w light for even less than the ripoff artists that are premade LEDs.
 
mauricem00

mauricem00

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Hybridway said:
The cheap burple lights that say they cover 11-12 bands or whatever are not actually full spectrum. It's a sales Gimick.
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Burple was originally designed by Apache led through NASAs' findings about plants growing w/ red + blue. Then other companies like Advanced for example added the other colors here n there (limited to none on the green like Platinum) to call it full spectrum.
True full spectrum is either white or enhanced white. One of the reason why white cobs are so popular.
McCobs are burple.
If your new light has a veg & flower switch it's meant for them both to be on together when in flower usually for the best results & highest power output.
The Reds do assist in triggering the fruiting phase although it's achieved primarily through timing of the light cycle.
Good luck!
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even white leds are not full spectrum. the SPD for these clearly show that..unless you consider a barely detectable amount of light as "full spectrum" 11-12cbanb LEDs provider a fuller spectrum than white LEDs. they are just not as effiecient. but all light used for plant growth are "full spectrum" in as much as they produce a detectable level of light across the entire 400-700nm band. now matching light output to plant needs it a totally separate issue.FULL spectrum claims are just a sales gimmick used with all LED lights.how much light do your white leds put out at 470 or 430 or 410nm or 680nm? how much at 350-400nm range?all of these bands are very useful to plants.
 
Hybridway

Hybridway

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mauricem00 said:
even white leds are not full spectrum. the SPD for these clearly show that..unless you consider a barely detectable amount of light as "full spectrum" 11-12cbanb LEDs provider a fuller spectrum than white LEDs. they are just not as effiecient. but all light used for plant growth are "full spectrum" in as much as they produce a detectable level of light across the entire 400-700nm band. now matching light output to plant needs it a totally separate issue.FULL spectrum claims are just a sales gimmick used with all LED lights.how much light do your white leds put out at 470 or 430 or 410nm or 680nm? how much at 350-400nm range?all of these bands are very useful to plants.
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I agree to an extent. I grow w/ LEDs as full spectrum as I can get. Enhanced White. They have 470, 630 & 720nm as added suplements along w/ 65k's to the cobs. That fills the gaps. Just need some UVB which one of the lights comes w/ but I'll need to add t-5 for the others.
 
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zuzuj

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question is ,is that 150w multispectrum any good ?
i watch video 100w draw 80w out of socket ,and 150 take 125-130w
 
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