churchhaze
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LEDs win where you tune the spectrum to delete parts of the curve you don't want, so you can get away with less power for similar amounts of plant-growing light.
What you both don't understand is that it would actually be more efficient to use a filter on white cobs to get rid of "the colors you don't want" than it would be to use monos to add the colors you DO want. Of course i'm not suggesting actually using a filter on white light, but it would still be more efficient, thus making it economically unfeasible to use monos by comparison.Which makes the white cobs for grow leds ironic, with specifically added parts (reducing photon output in the process), "optimized for bay lighting", for human eyes, not for plants.
Satived in particular, this is what you just can't seem to wrap your head around. Yellow and green leds are so inefficient in comparison to blue leds with a phosphor coating that using yellow leds is actually less efficient by a very wide margin.
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