The next production run of our 2026 ProTerp 600W and 800W fixtures is currently in final assembly, aging, and packaging. Shipping is expected to begin in approximately 2 weeks.
Demand has been incredibly strong, and previous batches moved much faster than we anticipated. If you’ve been waiting to upgrade your lighting or start a new room, now is a good time to secure your fixture rather than waiting for inventory to land chances are they will be sold out and the next fixtures won’t be shipping until late September
The 2026 ProTerp Series was designed to bring a true CMH/Sunlike-inspired spectrum into a high-efficiency LED platform without sacrificing performance. Featuring 437nm peak whites, 450nm peak whites, 480nm cyan, 525nm green, dual red (640nm & 660nm), and independently controllable/dimmable 730nm far-red on both the 600W and 800W, it delivers one of the most complete spectra available while maintaining up to 3.23+ PPE.
Where are these built? Who’s diodes are you using? What driver do you use? Aren’t green LED considerably less efficient than other colors? It would seem that they would affect your PPE.
Custom binned 437nm pump whites, ledestar 302k YZ bin 450nm pump whites, ledestar 480nm and 525nm, osram reds, ledestar 730nm. Yes green is less efficient than whites. When you’re driving them at their peak performance which works out to around 5 diodes a watt in most cases you can do some pretty amazing things with effeciency and spectrum shaping without having to really sacrifice to much. I’ve got a basic white + red fixture with 39% total red in actual output sitting here that hits 3.4 PPE at the fixture level next closest thing is probably dimlux they hit 3.6 PPE but are using 65% red to do it with that much red if you drove the diodes at optimal current you can get a lot closer to 4.0 now days you normally don’t see stuff like that outside of green houses though. We use a couple different drivers, external drivers we use fahold and are in the process of having tbw do custom drivers for us that better match how we utilize far red still waiting on UL and ETL and a couple other things for them, but they are coming. Will be a seamless switch also, should a fixture with a fahold driver have a driver failure for whatever reason the custom drivers we’re doing with tbw will be what’s sent as a replacement and with. future lights. Fixtures with internal drivers are Inventronics.
On the internal driver models it’s fine tuning, on the external driver models it’s a fixed percentage and clicks. There is a decent amount of them though 5 or 6 presets, I’ll have to look at one tomorrow to double check I don’t remember off the top of my head what the presets are on them. For full 0-100 need a controller that can do multi channel lights. Some aci controllers will turn them off and on and dim the main channel in 10% increments but not the far red. Vivo sun controllers are hit and miss. Best to use an actual light controller with multi channel support or the built in dimming and timers if you’re going to run a dark period.
Thinking I might need 2 for my 5/9 like you said. wonder how my temps would be. Do you do the thing where you can put the driver outside of the tent or is that more gimmick ?
Yes they all come with extension cables in the box now, was to much of a pita trying to stock them separate or have people order them when they need them. In a 5x9 you’re going to want 2x of the 800s. They don’t run super hot like a lot of other big power lights do, they still get warm but I wouldn’t say they run hot by any means of the word. Last I looked had like 6x 800s and maybe 22x 600s before out of stocks again, if you’re seriously looking I wouldn’t wait, I’m gonna turn ads on tomorrow and what’s left in stock will be gone before the end of the week. I’ve got more that’ll be ready again here in about 4-5 weeks. On hand inventory doesn’t stay around very long. You save a degree or two putting the driver outside the tent with my lights, you don’t save as much as you think you do with better quality lights. Now with cheap or entry level lights moving that driver can save you 3-5° sometimes but if your airflow is good with my lights you’re not going to see anywhere near that reduction they are already super efficient.
