iGrow sent me some kind of training manual on their lights. I still haven't heard on whether they'll give me a light to demo. At least they explain the bracket design now and show the spectrums for both the veg and bloom lamps. It looks like the lamps change out pretty easy but I'd like to see it being done with the light hanging over the plants upside down instead of like how they show it being done in the video.
Hey Gordo. When a manufacturer has a defect they will call it a feature. Case in point; That 'self leveling system' bracket is the stock Chinese tunnel light bracket that allows the lights to be angled down when installed in tunnels. If a light has a V clip centered over the back of the fixture it only takes a single point connection to the V Clip with a pro-grip, jack chain or whatever you're using to hang the light. Show me one grow light that needs a self leveling feature. if you can point to one anywhere they would be well advised to not ignore the stern legal message at the bottom of this page that this is, or may be, part of a proprietary design by their client.
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The
Made in the USA (nothing about any of their products coming from China) at the top of the page also goes on to state that while they, FSS HYDRO LLC, are
Staking the Global Claim as the leader in the market they are doing so by
Repurposing Equipment already in the Marketplace. Now what precisely does that mean? They also wordsmith on the last bullet point in claiming
US procurement of raw materials which opens the door for some FSS purchasing agent sitting in Jackson MI to be buying Chinese made lamps and drivers. It was, after all, 'US Procurement'.
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But the biggest issue I see that this information raises is after only briefly looking at the spectral distribution graphs their lamps are producing I'm left with a glaring disparity between the two induction lamps. The Veg (5000K) spectrum shows the Mercury peaks that an induction lamp would have at 405 and 730nm. The Bloom (2700K) spectrum is missing these peaks. It can't be an induction lamp at all since the Hg peaks are simply not there. Perhaps it was some oversight or maybe they are just 'repurposing' an HPS lamps spectrum which the chart on the left more closely resembles.
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I am a bit surprised that the USDA and all the other esteemed research institutes missed this. If I may be so bold as to posit a suggestion; after claiming
15 years of research they may wish to remedy this chart prior to making, what some might consider a premature claim, of worldwide dominance of the induction indoor grow light market.
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But what do we weed growers know anyway.