white LED = full spectrum?

I just saw this LED full spectrum grow light and this is the NM spectrums it lists for its quad band LED grow lamp.
Are they saying that a white LED light puts off full spectrum?

Ok 136 views and no replies. I am assuming that is right the white DOES do the full spectrum but then my question is why not build an LED panel with all white LEDs? does it not give off a large enough dose of the wavelengths you need? or does it give bad stuff also like UV and IR? Come on people somebody knows something about white LEDs

because all white leds have no penetration

build an led with NO whites an suppliment it with cfls an you will get more useable light

mon3ymak3n said:

I just saw this LED full spectrum grow light and this is the NM spectrums it lists for its quad band LED grow lamp.
Are they saying that a white LED light puts off full spectrum?

Power	300W
Input Voltage	85~265VAC, 50/60Hz
Input Current	1.2~2.5A
Ambient Temperature	-20~50°C
LEDs (Red:Blue:Orange:White)	96:13:13:13 (135 x 2W each)
Wavelengths (Red, Blue, Orange, White)	660nm, 455nm, 615nm, full
Output	9000lm
Light Angle	90°
Dimensions (LxWxH)	17½ x 11 x 2¾” (422 x 277 x 75mm)

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Full spectrum is basically 5000k and CRI>90.

The original White LEDs are also Blue or Yellow 410-590nm LED chips, but after having packaged with different level of phosphors, they then become 2700-20000K White LEDs.

Yes, white leds are full spectrum. They cover from 400nm-700nm versus just a narrow narrow piece of the spectrum like the colored diodes.



2300k-6500k flourescents and LEDs are all full spectrum in that they provide light over the entire range. In flourescents 5500k is called by the marketing term 'full spectrum' just as 6500k is called cool white and 2700 warm white. That does not mean 5500k is any more full spectrum, it's just not as blue/red biased.

You can always think of it this way. Take a prism and hold it up to sunlight - Whoa! It makes a rainbow! That's because white light it a combination of many colors - the full spectrum. Hold a prism up to blue light and you get shades of blue.

Awesome input, this is why i love this site and that graph is going into the folder where i put all of my grow ebooks thank you all very much

So what this graph is really telling me is that if I want to grow some serious dank, I need to get a bunch of bar code scanning lasers and place them strategically targetting my budsites!?