LED grow lights are advantageous for any grower who has experience heat problems while growing with traditional grow lights. LED lights are still seen as a recent addition to the grow light family but their advanced target light frequency technology make them an excellent choice for grow lights.
Below are a list of Advantages to LED grow lights.
Targeted light frequencies
You would have been taught in high school that white light is made from different frequencies (colours) of light, a clear example of this is a rainbow where the white light has been separated into colours.
If you’ve already being doing your research in to plant growth and the effect of light, then you will know that plant can only absorb specific frequencies of light, these tend to be at the blue and red end of the light spectrum. Since LED grow lights are able to emit light that contains only the range of frequencies that plants can absorb there is less light wastage and therefore you can use your electricity much more efficiently, as energy prices continue to rise in the UK, this will become one of the most important factors in selecting grow lights.
Heat Emitted from LED Grow Lights
Many traditional grow light such as HPS and Metal Halide become very hot resulting in a need for a cooling system to keep your plants at optimum temperatures. Generally you will need some basic knowledge of electric to wire up a suitable cooling system and dependent on your method of cooling / extraction it can become quite expensive. A major advantage to LED grow lights is a a cooling or extraction system is not needed when using LED Grow Lights, the bulbs produce very little heat and will only become slightly warm to the touch even when they’ve been on for a long period of time. Since there is no need for a cooling system to stop your plants from frying, you will save on your electric bills too.
Low voltage of LED Grow Lights
LED’s are low voltage and require much less electricity than HPS or Metals Halide grow lights. This is another advantage of LED grow lights, since they can help reduce your electricity costs.
No ballast required unlike HPS or Metal Halide
Unlike some other grow lights LED’s require no ballasts, this makes LED Mounting systems lighter than other traditional grow lights. LED grow bulbs can be screwed into normal light fittings and many come with a ES 27 type screw fitting which is a common lamp fitting, so you should have no problems finding a light fitting to house your LED grow bulbs.
LED have a Longer life
A big advantage of LED grow lights is their life time. LED bulbs have a life of approximately 100,000 hours. This is almost 50 times longer than conventional light bulbs. Unlike regular grow bulbs that need to be changed due to the light degradation over time, resulting in light spectrum changes, LED grow lights have a light spectrum which remains constant throughtout their entire life time.
No reflector necessary are LED Grow Lights
Unlike traditional grow light, light is emitted is only emitted in the direction your require, making a reflector un-necessary. Reflectors are built into LED lights, meaning you don’t need to stump up the extra cost of buying a purpose build reflector, once again saving you cash. built into the bulbs themselves.
There are many advantages to LED Grow lights, they save on electricity, produce very little heat and have a extremely long life time with degradation to the light frequency.
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