It is an inevitable fact that once you get keen on the growing business, you will immerse yourself into the focus of which is the best grow lights. It gets even more confusing since factions for ...

Think back to mixing primary-color paint in grade school. Remember how mixing in yellow changes white, blue and red? Lighting is no exception. A problem too often overlooked is how the yellow-tinted ...

UK LED maker Plessey has proved LED lighting can increase crop yield, in a trial where it was added to an existing high-pressure sodium (HPS) light installation. The seven-month trial, managed by ...

LEDs are capable of replacing HPS for supplemental lighting for cut gerbera production during darker periods. In Canada, as in other higher latitudes, there is not enough natural light for production ...

“Global efforts to phase-out the use of HPS continue to be met with a resistance to using white LED replacements. Due to this lack of a viable and sustainable alternative, HPS have remained exempt ...

NEW DELHI: If we evaluate the history of LED lights in the last few years, then it can be seen that this technology has evolved a lot. The efficiency of the LED lights have been improved ten folds and ...

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, published a new report on the energy and economic performance of LED horticultural luminaires. The research team found ...

When most people hear the phrase “adequate lighting” in an industrial setting, they immediately think about brightness and the level of visibility. Certainly, that’s important for employee safety.

In Canada, as in other higher latitudes, there is not enough natural light for production of many greenhouse commodities during the darker months of the year. In these regions, it is necessary for ...

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