While many beginning gardeners prefer to buy an out of the box LED grow light setup, there now is a more flexible, and often cheaper option for growing plants indoors — the LED grow light bar.
What are some good features to look for in LED grow lights?
If buying full spectrum LED grow light, get one with adjustable output spectrum settings.
If you are opting for high powered LEDs, always make sure that they have proper cooling systems.
Look for LED fixtures that have a constant current driver circuit to ensure proper supply of direct current at all times.
If buying full spectrum LED grow light, get one with adjustable output spectrum settings.
If you are opting for high powered LEDs, always make sure that they have proper cooling systems.
Look for LED fixtures that have a constant current driver circuit to ensure proper supply of direct current at all times.
What are the advantages of LED grow lights over HIDs?
Less heat
Compared to incandescent lamps, LED bulbs and panels emit much less heat. This is very important for plants, as extra heat can damage your crop.
Less heat
Compared to incandescent lamps, LED bulbs and panels emit much less heat. This is very important for plants, as extra heat can damage your crop.
Less heat also means that you can keep the lights much closer to the plants without fear of damage to the crop. That is one less factor to worry about when planning your grow system.
Less Power Consumption
Older incandescent lights are inefficient because a lot of the energy supplied is lost in the form of heat.
But since LEDs emit less heat, less electricity is being wasted as well. If you supply the same amount of electricity to an LED and HID, the LED will provide more light.
Typically, you can expect energy savings to the tune of 25–50% from LEDs.
Older incandescent lights are inefficient because a lot of the energy supplied is lost in the form of heat.
But since LEDs emit less heat, less electricity is being wasted as well. If you supply the same amount of electricity to an LED and HID, the LED will provide more light.
Typically, you can expect energy savings to the tune of 25–50% from LEDs.
Best LED Grow Light Bars for Sale in 2020
The ECO Farm LED Lite 650W Foldable LED Grow Light takes Vertical Farming into the new era. ECO Farm LED Lite series is the vertical farming LED Grow Light that is engineered to be superior and outperforms all of the Vertical Farming LEDs on the market today. Fully equipped with the latest in High End LED technology from the best of Samsung. ECO Farm LED Lite is a massive fixture that delivers uniform light intensity and promotes uniform growth across your canopy. Dimming gives you full control of your intensity and allows you to only use what you need taking efficiency to the next level, reducing BTU output, and extending the lifespan of the fixture.
ECO Farm took the industry by storm with their LED. We’re calling it the most efficient LED, so let’s talk about the specifics. ECO Farm set out to solve a huge problem in the commercial growing industry with this light — efficiency at scale. Because commercial facilities employ large numbers of grow lights, energy costs stack up fast. That’s why its important the LEDs used in these facilities are as efficient as possible.
The ECO Farm operates at an insane efficiency of 2.52μmol/J. Despite also being incredibly powerful, it still costs just $27.91 per month in electricity.
This is an amazing LED grow light, efficiency isn’t the only thing it wins in.
The Lumatek Zeus 600W LED is a linear multi-light bar fixture producing PPF of 1380 µmol/s and a Photon Efficacy (fixture efficiency) of 2.3 µmol/J.
With the advances in technology and fixture performance, high quality LED horticultural lighting is now a credible option offering significant return on investment to cultivators. Lumatek full spectrum horticultural LED solutions balance light quality (spectra) with light quantity (intensity and duration) sufficient to provide single-source lighting for entire grow cycle from vegetative through flowering period.
The array of LEDs create a uniform spread of light at short distance to the crop enabling single source grow lighting for multi-layer cultivation systems, single benches in low rooms and grow tents.
The Zeus is built using high quality Lumatek drivers and top bin LEDs from Osram and Lumileds Philips generating a full-spectrum light source ideal for veg and flowering cycles.
LED grow lights need to be used properly to get the results, but if you know what to expect they pay you back with built-in cooling that allows a grower to hang their lights directly over their plants without worrying about fans, ducting or ballasts. They are easy on the electricity bill and don’t cause a lot of heat problems.
