Hi there! I have been making research about new led light technologies and I bought a new one called BavaGreen 240 watt quantum board here are the specifications:
The charts are great but why does it have so many white leds with only a few red ones? In this post I want to compare this light to an old one that I used.
On the other hand there is this light I borrowed from a friend and used for one grow which performed perfectly. I got a lot of buds. This lights are custom made (made by an electrical engineer who runs a small company) It has a cheaper driver but who cares! It's only 60 watts but full of red diodes rathen white or blue as you can see from the pictures (I had two of them total 120 watts). As far as I know the red diodes are responsible for bud production why the new companies makes quantum boards full of white leds and just a few red ones? The 60 watt unit that I used consists of 30 osram 660 nm red diodes with only 3 blue ones.
I know the fact that the white leds are better than the blue ones because they also carry the green and yellow part of the spectrum but is it enough to put only 24 red diodes alongside 500 white ones? Why do they do this? I noticed some expensive US brands using more red diodes than blues can't remember their names though.
Now I don't know if I converted my system from 120 watt (60 osram 600 nm+6 blue) to 240 watt (500 samsung white leds + 24 Osram 660nm + UV + IR)
or did I just reduce my harvest amount according to the lesser red diode amount with the light change?
This is how I could describe the situation. I don't know maybe im getting something wrong or maybe totally not aware of what are those white leds are responsible for? I am not trying to defend blurple lights but the last setup I used 2 of those lights 60+60 watts included 60 red diodes and the new one I bought is 240 watt but has only 24 red diodes.
I invested on this new light because I wanted to double my harvest. Now it looks different I only doubled my watt consumption and have much less red diodes.
the first 2 pictures belongs to the 60 watt unit that I used and got great results
the last one is bavagreen 240 watt that worries me. In this article it says the ratio of red to blue should be 5:1. Did you see any new quantum boards using this kind of ratio? https://growlightinfo.com/what-color-light-do-plants-grow-best-in/
- High quality 400W HPS replacement
- Top bin full spectrum Samsung diodes.
- 240W true wattage draw
- Meanwell Driver
- Passive cooled design with large aluminum heat sink.
- Built in dimmer switch
- Fully assembled, simply plug and play
- Flower footprint: ~ 1.5'x3' - 2'x4'
- Veg footprint: ~ 2'x3' - 2.5'x4'
| LED count | LM301H 2700K: 192 LM301H 4000K: 320 Osram 660nm: 24 Osram 730nm: 4 Seoul UV 385nm: 12 |
| PPF | 588μmol/s |
| Efficacy (400 nm - 730 nm) | 2.45 μmol/j |
| Driver | Meanwell HLG-240H-C2100B |
The charts are great but why does it have so many white leds with only a few red ones? In this post I want to compare this light to an old one that I used.
On the other hand there is this light I borrowed from a friend and used for one grow which performed perfectly. I got a lot of buds. This lights are custom made (made by an electrical engineer who runs a small company) It has a cheaper driver but who cares! It's only 60 watts but full of red diodes rathen white or blue as you can see from the pictures (I had two of them total 120 watts). As far as I know the red diodes are responsible for bud production why the new companies makes quantum boards full of white leds and just a few red ones? The 60 watt unit that I used consists of 30 osram 660 nm red diodes with only 3 blue ones.
I know the fact that the white leds are better than the blue ones because they also carry the green and yellow part of the spectrum but is it enough to put only 24 red diodes alongside 500 white ones? Why do they do this? I noticed some expensive US brands using more red diodes than blues can't remember their names though.
Now I don't know if I converted my system from 120 watt (60 osram 600 nm+6 blue) to 240 watt (500 samsung white leds + 24 Osram 660nm + UV + IR)
or did I just reduce my harvest amount according to the lesser red diode amount with the light change?
This is how I could describe the situation. I don't know maybe im getting something wrong or maybe totally not aware of what are those white leds are responsible for? I am not trying to defend blurple lights but the last setup I used 2 of those lights 60+60 watts included 60 red diodes and the new one I bought is 240 watt but has only 24 red diodes.
I invested on this new light because I wanted to double my harvest. Now it looks different I only doubled my watt consumption and have much less red diodes.
the first 2 pictures belongs to the 60 watt unit that I used and got great results
the last one is bavagreen 240 watt that worries me. In this article it says the ratio of red to blue should be 5:1. Did you see any new quantum boards using this kind of ratio? https://growlightinfo.com/what-color-light-do-plants-grow-best-in/
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