So, if you are still using fluorescent lights in a commercial or industrial facility, a lighting upgrade to LED lights can cut your energy costs by half. A very common upgrade we help with all the time is converting fluorescent T5 high-output high bays over tolinear panel high bays. At t...
Step 1: Choose Your Place to Grow Step 2: Choose Your Light Step 3: Choose Your Growing Medium Step 4: Get Cannabis-Friendly Nutrients Step 5: Get Good Seeds (or Clones) Step 6: Germinate Your Seeds / Start Your Clones Step 7: Vegetative Stage – Only Stems and Leaves Step 8: Flower...
Based on the type of bulb, lights can appear “cooler” or “warmer” on camera. The human eye perceives this difference too. Consider how a doctor’s office looks (cool fluorescent light) compared to a comfortable living room setting. Warmer light typically has a more yellow color, while...
Using a light meter, measure the light falling on the side of their face closest to the light source (i.e., the highlight side). Let’s say that measures f/8. (Keep your shutter speed the same for all measurements to maintain consistency.) Then bring in your reflector and use the l...
Cannabis plants grow very fast in a short amount of time, and need a lot of energy from the light to grow and produce buds. In the wild, a cannabis plant can grow to the size of tree in less than a year, and it uses energy from light to power that growth. Many new growers who...
We are bathed in yellow warmth every day and stave off the darkness with incandescent and fluorescent bulbs. But what exactly is light? We catch glimpses of its nature when a sunbeam angles through a dust-filled room, when a rainbow appears after a storm or when a drinking straw in a ...
To measure the amount of the grow light inside the grow tent, use aPAR Meter. Measuring light is important to ensure the optimal PPFD values to make plants thrive and yield. Using a PAR meter shows how much energy the grow light gives off and what lands on the plant. The optimal range...
So, in short, fluorescent lights make their energy in a three-step process: Electrodes take electrical energy from the power supply and generate moving electrons. The moving electrons collide with mercury atoms in the tubes to make ultraviolet light. The white phosphor coating of the tubes convert...
Not a measure of brightness; instead, it’s a measure of how much electricity (or energy) a bulb consumes to reach its claimed brightness. Each type of light source, LED, Fluorescent, Halogen, or Incandescent has a different lumen-per-watt ratio. Below we’re going to use lum...
—We changed out our incandescent light bulbs years ago to cut down on the heat in our house by using fluorescent and then LED bulbs that don’t emit that much heat. —We also have an electric range on our screened-in back porch that we use in the summer to keep the cooking heat ou...