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LED Light penetration ?
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Prawn Connery wrote:
ben ttech wrote:eventually...
your plants will seemingly grow in the dark...

youll turn on the light so that you can work...
youll see each of their leaves tented by a soapbubble like film...
whos underside is an array of microscopic leds bathing the photoreceptors from a fraction of an inch away...

wireless of course...
[great] idea! Of course, except when it comes time to wipe off the film . . . and your trichomes, too. :grin:
you know i had it figured that this film would be a simple array of areo stats. millions of tiny bubbles which arrange themselves based on geomagnetic principals; dialed specifically into the precise tune of the plants electromagnetic properties.

youd simple tune a bag full of them and then after opening it, they would float to and arrange themselves... homing in on the stomas aura.

whenever you wanted to get a good look at the leaves, manipulate the plant or harvest, you simple flip and switch somewhere and they in mass would rise off and return to the bag, or some other collection plate or surface.

like a cloud which technology in the near future will be able to command seemingly like magic
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Experimenting w/ Triband 90W UFO with 90 Bridgelux LED lights. Just entering veg phase. Let you know how it works out, but so far, as good as a 400w halide. Using a 10 gal. fishtank hydro bubbler.

Specs:

LED Color: Red (70 pcs), Blue (10 pcs), Orange (10 pcs)
Wavelength: Red 630nm, Blue 460nm, Orange 610nm.
LED lifespan: 50,000 hours
Silver reflective sheet under LED
Overall dimension: 10 5/8" diameter, 2 3/8" thick
LED panel diameter: 5 7/8"
Input Voltage: 110v-220v

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Yeah, two grows now using Triband 90W UFO with 90 Bridgelux LED lights would work fine if you live in a dorm, short of space and have security/power issues. Yield much lower than 400W Halide, but if I were in college, worth a consideration if lacking other resources.

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One would naturally expect significantly lower yield at 90W vs. 400. The real question I suppose is relative yield per W.
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per wattage yield....spit-balling it, was comparable to a 400W. But the small space requirement restricts what you can do with these with just one.

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Hmmm... my understanding was that LED were supposed to be significantly more efficient (in the thermodynamic sense) than conventional incandescent/discharge lighting- at least in terms of lumens per W.

Any upsides for LEDs vs. conventional lighting?
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Give me a yield per light or watt, that is what really matters, and of course the quality.

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Post by bentech »

ledgrower on opengrow has alot of good reporting

https://www.opengrow.com/index.php?showtopic=42986&st=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

someone named jeffmans also doing ledgrows and weblazer likes both of their work
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Post by Dick Hertz »

That is really impressive. LED's are coming of age. I just can't wait to hook one up to my E Cat.

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