GLA * Grow light Australia Strip review.

After some research i decided to go with a rarely under reviewed lighting manufacture for my leg build. I chose them because what i had read looked promising, especially as they are using a fairly new and unique Japanese diodes (Nichia) . They also incorporate UV and green/yellow light for a true full spectrum effect.
This isn't a paid review or anything so i suggest you visit https://growlightsaustralia.com for a full breakdown of what these chips offer.

Customer service with this company was great and purchasing a total of 3 400w drivers and 24 strips ended with a significant discount.

Building the light fittings themselves only had one tricky part and that was finding suitable passive heatsinks for these strips. If i could do it again i would have only built the one LED strip fitting and just gone with a pair of their longboards for my 5ft tent.
Strips were easy to mount and very easy to wire, you can wire 4 trips end to end without issue so it made for near installation as the strips come pre wired with flex tails.

With my 4ftx4ft i build a 400w square with a slight angle to go with a 315w CMH in LEC fitting. and i must say after doing one grow with them i am very impressed. despite having some issues with pests and an unfortunate damage from hydrogen peroxide and light burn i still managed to get 22z from an average strain.

The PFFD readings are also very uniform and i can get a solid 700pffd from the edges to the centre.* with the square and LEC

With pure bar fittings i made 2x 400w fittings so i could adjust height and angle over my grow space to optimise penetration and PFFD
With this setup i am getting 600 PPFD in the low spots at the edges and 800-900 just a little in all the way to the centre.

The pictures i am posting are from a second run where i am using clones and plan not to make the same mistakes that damaged my yield on the last attempt.

Overall i would defiantly recommend this manufacturer , shipping is reasonable and offset massively by removal of sales tax and not being stung too badly at customs. i am going to swap out the LEC for two of their 250w panels and heatsinks to be run at 400w total

Here is the new run in the 5ft.
Unfortunately the heat off the heatsink has made my sticky cable clips drop off so I will be using cable ties once I get in there ( strip heatsink runs at about 40c at 50w per strip.

Here is the LEC/LED combo, this tent is 10days behind flower and a different , more sativa dominant strain.

One thing to add is that GLAs products emit light outside of the range that a par meter will pick up so its safe to say those readings are + 10% i would also argue that compared to other LED manufacturers GLA lights are actually giving out even more useable light

Even better; you can use a lux meter to estimate ppfd using GLAs lux to ppfd conversion factor : 0.022.
This means your pretty standard 50000lux means 1100ppfd.

And for those who want to go even deeper; boards and strips have been digitised to simulate light throw: you can set up software to simulate the light levels in your own space, with or without reflective walls etc