Personally, I think modular rack/track style lighting could be the future of home grow LED fixtures.
Id like a bar style light that you can adjust the position of each bar and theyre a quick click and swap connection so you can have bars for veg/flower supplementation that you can swap out faster than a single T5 bulb. Have so many bars of white diodes and then the ability to add more directed supplement bars when needed. Could even cover all the UV stuff in there.
That new lumatek zeus 600w pro has some really cool and well thought out features.
Do you feel adding supplementation in the form of a strip or bar is effective at providing a decently dispersed, even spectrum? Or even a strip of red or whatever down a white board?
Just curious as to why so many growers don't just buy a Premium fixture with all the supplementation added to it out the box for the most uniform spread as well as never having to purchase add-ons to achieve the desired growth traits, prettier buds & higher yields? Oh, that never blend unless diy spreading is done. Messy stuff usually.
Never understood that one.
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Guess the same goes for heat sinking or thermal mngmt . Growers are purchasing far inferior (to what they are told) products with unmentionable L & B ratings because for the manufacturer to mention them would mean admitting selling you a Lemon, designed to dimm-out on you x2 as fast as you expected if you know anything about industry standards (L/70 or 30% depreciation at 50,000 or 100,000 hrs depending on what the manufacturer listed as the lifespan. Why, cuz if they feed you one needed NM or wavelength a yr they can increase their customer upgrade margin enough to never hear about the fast depreciation you can Barely see with your eyes anyways but cost you yeilds beyond.
B ratings so poor they'd show manufacturers using 1/2 top-binish diodes (or at least better then other half) & the other half, god knows what bin or quality. Hence a B/50 rating.
Yet a guaranteed, fully-properly enhanced, Beefed to High Heaven fixture using the top components everywhere & one of the few Custom designs with all the Bells n whistles, fixtures is not even on the growers led radar? One glance shows you double to triple the L ratings of the competitors. L ratings are based on how much heat the diodes exposed to. Close, clusters on thin PCB's with skinny mini heat sinks is a good indicator of a low lifespan fixture.
Most times the same cost or only a few yards more one can get it right the first time. Always less money next to anything remotely close in build quality or components, but the competitors will likely not have the Bells + Whistels), just the basics with the basic, defficient spectrum.
Please, if anyone can enlighten me to another direction of thinking, im all ears & open-minded.
Just reporting what I've seen as a trend for toooo long.
