HiloReign
Well-Known Member
Hello and welcome, I am an inexperienced grower and LED DIYER. I post now in the hopes of invoking interest, ideas, feedback, criticism and fun. I am in the process of designing 3 small-scale and all-white LED panels. Each panel will be a different color temperature (~3000k, ~5500k, ~8000-10000k) and I hope to conduct different grows with the lights, experimenting with what light does what (solo panel grows), different combinations etc. I would like the panels each to consist of 20-30 diodes each, so as to not break the bank.
I consider the whole scheme to be in its infancy stage and am open to any and all suggestions, ideas, and comments. I do have questions/thoughts of my own:
Here's a link to my last and unfinished grow with an experimental LED.
I consider the whole scheme to be in its infancy stage and am open to any and all suggestions, ideas, and comments. I do have questions/thoughts of my own:
- I suspect a broader spectrum of light to supply a plant with what it needs better than a light source consisting mainly of 2 or maybe 3 bands of light.
- Used altogether, the panels should create an "ideal" spectrum
- ~5500k panel - Daylight/Vegetation
- ~3000k panel - Flowering
- ~8000-10000k panel - Overall boost/???
- Are my choices in spectrum inaccurately represented?
- Do I achieve UV/IR? Is that essential?
- What are the consequences of spectral imbalance?
- Still looking for good quality/price LEDs!!! (Also other items i.e heat sink, driver, (?)mcpcb stars)
- More to come...
Here's a link to my last and unfinished grow with an experimental LED.