comparing lights:
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The efficiency of LED lights depends on how you measure it. There has been a long-standing "standard practice" in the lighting industry to measure ...
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Can Black Dog LED grow lights be used for both vegetative and flowering growth?
There has been a popular belief that plants need more blue light fo...
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How are PAR/PPFD measurements often manipulated?
PPFD measurements should be taken over the entire area of the lighting footprint at regularly-sp...
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We have a lot of experience growing a diverse range of plants under different combinations of LED grow light colors. In our (and others') experimen...
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LED diodes are rated based on the amount of power (wattage) they can theoretically handle, if they are perfectly cooled. Some LED grow light compan...
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Many HID (HPS, MH, LEC / CMH) lighting fixture manufacturers advertise that their aluminum reflectors are 98% reflective, and therefore reflect 98%...
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LEDs typically have a plastic, silicone or glass lens over the actual LED die (the name of the chip that actually produces light); this lens helps ...
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What type of diode do we use?
Here at Black Dog LED, we pride ourselves in providing indoor growers with the highest quality spectrum and most inte...
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What about these 10-watt white LEDs?
First, it is important to know what "white" light really is. White is not a spectral color, but rather a combi...
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The simple answer is: deeper than any other grow light of the same wattage.
Unfortunately, there is no single answer to exactly how deep our lights...
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Both numbers are important to consider. Measuring total photon flux is like looking at the total flow rate of a showerhead. A showerhead that puts ...
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We use grow lights with primary lenses because they allow the light produced from an LED to most efficiently reach your plants. To understand why, ...
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