Light Wave LED High Power Grow Light

“Superior Performance through Digital Technology to Create Optimal Light for Photosynthesis”



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HIGH POWER LED LIGHTWAVE PRO is superior to a 1000 WATT High Pressure Sodium Bulb and DRAMATICALLY USES LESS ENERGY

· LED produces 4550 Lumens of Concentrated Optimal Light Spectrum which is ABSORBED (HPS Bulb-More than half of the lumen output is NOT absorbed- wastes energy)

· Power: 133W (Vs. a 1000 Watt HPS bulb) · LED Color Temperature: 5500-5700 Kelvin- DAYLIGHT SPECTRUM (Vs. HPS bulb- 2000 Kelvin)

DAYLIGHT SPECTRUM is proven to be optimum for plant growth and flowering. Light Wave Pro optimizes the daylight spectrum absorbed by plants to promote VIGOROUS GROWTH and HEARTY FLOWERING.

MYTH: Red light waves used in HPS bulbs are beneficial for plant growth. FACT: Red light waves are long waves and very little red light is actually used/ absorbed by plants. Concentrated blue light waves, such as in the Light Wave Pro, are short waves which are fully absorbed by plants and used for growth. Plant growth response is regulated by blue light including phototropism, stomatal opening and chlorophyll synthesis. CONCLUSTION: Optimizing the light spectrum helps to enhance photosynthesis and saves energy by not generating light in colors that plants do not use. Up to a point, the more sunlight a plant receives, the greater its capacity for producing food via photosynthesis. The last step of chlorophyll synthesis requires high levels of blue light.

· >90% Power Efficient (Vs. HPS- High Energy Usage)

· Lifespan: 50,000 hours (Vs. HPS- 24,000 hours)

· Low Voltage and Safe- Voltage rating: 85-125VAC or 180-250VAC (Vs. High Voltage)

· Extremely Low/ No Heat- Heat Sink Design to allow dissipation (Vs. High HPS heat emission)

· Waterproof- IP65 Safety Rating (Vs. No Wet Rating)



LED TECHNICAL PARAMETERS: · Illuminance: +/-4 meters · 19'' long x 12'' wide x 4'' deep · Weight: 13 lbs. (Suggested installation Grow-Yo Yo) · 4mm strengthened safety glass · All die-cast shell with spray-coated body -Body Color Options: gray, silver-gray, black, or white · Heat under standard working conditions: 50±5_ · Beam Spread Angle: 90° · Power factor: >0.98 · Work temperature: -35_~45_ · Individual bulb output: 65Lm/W · Color-Rendering index:>70



LIGHT WAVE PRO LED BENEFITS: · Very low energy consumption- SAVING YOU MONEY! · Lower heat emissions: no need for buying ventilation, cooling equipment such as fans, air conditioners, and duct work ·Optimized photosynthetic spectrum · Lower cost of ownership · Smaller garden space requirements- saves space, is light weight, and no need for buying bulky reflectors · No infrared electromagnetic radiation · Quiet grow room- no noisy fans, ballasts and chillers · Enviromentally Friendly – non hazardous waste

“Designed to stimulate photosynthesis by providing light in frequencies that plants primarily use for this critical biological process.”



LED GROW LIGHT PICTURES and PICTURE COMPARISONS WITH A 1000W HIGH PRESSURE SODIUM LIGHT BULB

For a picture showing the LED Grow Light being hung by Grow Yo-Yos please click HERE.
To view light Illuminance (light coverage) of the Light Wave LED High Power Grow Light is please click HERE.
To view light Illuminance of 1000W High Pressure Sodium bulb please click HERE.
To view LED Light Wave Pro Grow Light next to HPS 1000W bulb please click HERE.
To view side angle and see the LED heat sink close up please click HERE.
To view a demonstration of how bright Light Wave LED High Power Grow Light is please click HERE.
-----------------PRODUCT SPECIFICATION SHEET------------------ To view LED Grow Light Wave Pro Specification sheet please click HERE.
-------PAYBACK PERIOD FOR LIGHT WAVE PRO LED LIGHT FACTS--------

Growers pay $70 a month to run a 1000W HPS bulb in California;

A grower with six 1000W HPS lights will pay $420 per month in power.

Payback for the grower using High Power LED Light Wave Pro is 3.5 MONTHS!!!

- Not including saving money on the multiple replacement HPS bulbs needed to compare with the Light Wave Pro and recurring high power bills.

WHAT AN EXCELLENT INVESTMENT!!!

------------LED Article From GROWING EDGE MAGAZINE-------------

"CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE L.E.D. KIND" by Laurie Lamberth

"Everyone who uses high-intensity discharge (HID) garden lights has a love/hate relationship with them.

We love the way metal halide (MH) or high pressure sodium (HPS) lamps flood our garden's canopy with intense light, providing lots of energy for photosynthesis and keeping internodal distances short. We love the way we can easily switch between them to match or manipulate our plants' growth cycle. We love the way MH and HPS lights are widely available at reasonable prices.

But we hate how much energy these lights consume. In my area, Southern California, it costs at least $35 a month to run a 600-watt MH or HPS light for 12 hours per day, and even more in the summer due to higher seasonal electric rates. HID lights are one of our most "un-green" garden tools, with their high energy consumption, low efficiency ratings and mercury-containing bulbs. Critics rightly view them as inconsistent with earth-friendly gardening methods.

A big part of the problem is that HID lights are inefficient. A 400 watt HPS light is only about 35-percent efficient, which means that only 35 percent of the electrical energy delivered to the bulb is converted into light, while 65 percent is converted into heat. Lighting ballasts are hot, too, contributing to high excess heat levels in most HID-illuminated garden rooms.

This waste heat has to go somewhere, so we consume even more energy to cool and vent gardens that use these lights. Air conditioning is often required, and chillers may be needed to keep nutrient solutions from getting too hot.

Waste heat from HIDs increases evaporation from our reservoirs and growing media, and the transpiration rate of our plants. Nutrient and water consumption go up, as do the required flow rates of our irrigation systems. Just about every garden system is significantly impacted by the waste heat from HID lights.

What to do? It's not like we can just turn off our grow lights and wait for something better. T5 fluorescent grow lights are energy efficient and cool running, but their lower light output limits them to plants that need less light, such as leafy greens and foliage plants. At present, only an HID garden light can put out enough light to provide a bountiful harvest in plants that produce large fruit and flowers.

There may be good news on the horizon.



THE PROMISE OF LED GROW LIGHTS

We've been waiting a long time for garden lights based on light-emitting diodes (LEDs).NASA and others have been experimenting with LED grow lights since the mid-80's and we are finally starting to see products reaching the market that reflect their findings. These lights represent a major step forward.

LED grow lights offer the dual benefit of low energy-consumption and low heat-generation. Some LED grow lights use so little electricity that they can be powered by a small solar panel. According to their manufacturers, today's LED grow lights consume between2 percent and 50 percent of the electricity used by the HID grow lights they reportedly replace.

But we've yet to see a real-world application in which these lights perform as well as "comparable" HIDs, particularly for high-light crops.

LEDs are tiny semiconductor chips that generate light when electrified. It takes a small amount of electricity to make an LED glow (emit electrons.) The elements the diode is made from determine the light spectrum it emits. An LED is backed by an internal reflector and encased in an epoxy body with an integrated lens. Together, these components determine the angle of the light emitted by the diode, which is shaped as a downward-facing cone. Individual LEDs produce relatively small light cones, so they are clustered into arrays so the light cones overlap, increasing light intensity and coverage area.

LED grow lights are designed to stimulate photosynthesis by providing light in the frequencies that plants primarily use for this critical biological process. Individual LEDs may contain one of 29 known combinations of elements that emit light in different colors when excited by electrons. Grow light manufacturers emphasize blue and red LEDs in their fixtures, sometimes with other colors, which gives many LED grow lights their distinctive purplish-red color. Optimizing the light spectrum helps in two ways: it enhances photosynthesis and saves energy by not generating light in colors that plants do not use.

LED grow lights have a longer useful life than MH or HPS lights, as long as 15 years for some fixtures, and thus a lower "total cost of ownership." The total cost of ownership includes the cost to buy the light, use it, and replace expired bulbs. One manufacturer estimates that the total cost of owning an LED grow light over five years is about half the cost of a comparable HPS light, based on an analysis that balances the upfront cost to purchase an LED grow light against lower electrical costs and eliminating the need to periodically replace bulbs. Their analysis used an electric rate of $0.07 per kilowatt hour.

Growers may be able to save space, or move into a smaller space, with LED grow lights because with these lights there is need for bulky reflectors. Ventilation/cooling equipment such as fans, air conditioners and ductwork might be scaled back or eliminated altogether. The room will also be significantly quieter, with fewer noisy fans, ballasts, and chillers.

The promise of LED grow lights offers five aspects: lower energy consumption, lower heat emissions, customizable photosynthetic spectrum, lower total cost of ownership, and smaller garden space requirements.

Can today's LED grow lights actually deliver these benefits? The answer to that question depends on who you ask. Before we get to those questions, however, let's take a step back and examine light and photosynthesis a little closer.



ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Electromagnetic radiation spans a broad range of wavelengths, which includes what we recognize as "visible light." At the one end of the electromagnetic spectrum are gamma rays, which have a wavelength of 5-10 nanometers (nm). A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, a very small measure indeed. At the other end of the electromagnetic spectrum are radio waves with a wavelength of 1,012 nm. Smack in the middle are the wavelengths that can be seen by the human eye, falling between 380 and 750 nm. This part of the electromagnetic spectrum is what we call "visible light."

Plants use visible light differently than we do. Their leaves contain chlorophyll, a compound vital for photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert light into fuel. Chlorophyll molecules are highly selective about the light they absorb: blue light primarily in the 460-480 nm range, and red light around 640-680 nm. Chlorophyll, for the most part, reflects instead of absorbs most green and yellow light, which is why plants appear green to our eyes.

Limiting any grow light to just red and blue light would lead to poor results, since plants also use most of rest of the visible spectrum in lower amounts. NASA's Biological Sciences team at the Kennedy Space Center has done extensive research on this subject: a 2006 paper published by the International Society of Horticultural Science documented improvements in lettuce yields when 24 percent green light was added to LED grow lights that otherwise produced only red and blue light. Including light in the yellow-green spectrum also helps to visually restore green color to plants, making them look more "normal," and makes it easier to identify garden problems such as nutrient deficiencies or pest attacks. This combination also makes it easier for gardeners to work in their gardens.

Increasing the amount of red and blue light reaching the garden isn't an idea limited to LED grow lights. Enhanced-spectrum MH and HPS bulbs, such as Hortilux and SolarMax lamps, provide more blue and red light than standard bulbs. SO do water-cooled HID lights, according to their manufacturers. Enhanced-spectrum and water-cooled HID lights still put out a lot of light in yellow-green wavelengths, too, that look bright to the human eye but don't do much for our plants. An LED grow light designer isn't trying to reproduce sunlight or make up for the spectral shortcomings of a light originally designed for another purpose. Instead, they are trying to create optimal light output for photosynthesis."

-To see the full article please visit: http://www.growingedge.com/magazine/current_issue/view_article.php3?AID=200126

---------PHOTOPERIODISM PLANT Information- From Wikipedia--------

Many flowering plants use a photoreceptor protein, such as phytochrome or cryptochrome, to sense seasonal changes in day length, which they take as signals to flower.

Broadly, flowering plants can be classified as long day plants, short day plants, or day neutral plants.

Long day plants are plants that flower when the day is longer than a critical length (i.e. the night is shorter than a critical length). These plants generally flower in the spring or early summer, as days are getting longer.

Short day plants are plants that flower when the day is shorter than a critical length, or the night is longer than a critical length. These plants generally flower in late summer or fall, as days are getting shorter.

It is actually the night length rather than day length that controls flowering, so flowering in a long day plant is triggered by a short night (which, of course, also means a long day). Conversely, short day plants will flower when nights get longer than a critical length. This is known by using night break experiments. For example, a short day plant (long night) will not flower if a pulse (say 5 minutes) of artificial light is shone on the plant during the middle of the night. This generally does not occur from natural light such as moonlight, lightning, fire flies, etc, since the light from these sources is not sufficiently strong to trigger the response.

Day neutral plants do not initiate flowering based on photoperiodism i.e. they can flower regardless of the night length; some may use temperature (vernalization) instead. Quantitative long day or short day plants will have their flowering advanced or retarded by short or long days, but will eventually flower in sub-optimal day lengths. Again, temperature is likely to also influence flowering time in these plants.

Modern biologists believe that it is the coincidence of the active forms of phytochrome or cryptochrome, created by light during the daytime, with the rhythms of the circadian clock that allows plants to measure the length of the night.

Other instances of photoperiodism in plants include the growth of stems or roots during certain seasons, or the loss of leaves.