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Old 12-09-2020, 07:13 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Default Re: 30,000 LUM 6000K Grow Light Using LED Headlights

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Originally Posted by rocket357 View Post
That's a neat approach. I have been expanding my indoors hydroponics/aquaponics setups, and I've been using purchased grow lights (and as you've pointed out, they're *quite* expensive). I may try this out.

One question, though. Since it's LED and those tend to have a narrow band of frequencies, are you using specific head lights to work around that? (I'm pretty new to the idea, but I'll be doing more and more as my indoors stuff expands...and I'd rather not spend a few hundred bucks per plot heh).
At 6000 K, it's almost identical to sunlight. The two things to keep in mind with artificial sunlight is the brightness or lumens, and the color temperature. Shades of colors aid in this or that, but keeping it close to true sunlight is the best all around approach.
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