Growing with Lights - UV

[mobiledynamics]

For those that grow with lights - whether it be full spectrum CFL, LEDs, etc....

Recently switched from FS CFL to LED this year.
My lamp setup is in my mechanical room - lots piping, insulation, wiring, etc.


Anyhow, it never register or was on my radar but is it on any other forum members - concern about spillover of the UV portion since we have our lights running on 12-16 hrs per day...

AKA, the degradation of anything that UV might play some role (in my case it would be the insulation of various wiring in my mechanical room).

It was never on my radar, as the CFL lights prior was so diffused, there was not much spillover - wheres with the LED, they are much more intense. Right now, I've made ad-hoc shade tunnels - it's basically 4 sided walls from the lights directly down to cell packs - so the LED spillover light is nil-none.

[Worth1]

Found this interesting.
http://www.nouvir.com/index.cfm?ref=90200&ref2=8
http://www.nouvir.com/index.cfm?ref=90200&ref2=9
http://www.nouvir.com/index.cfm?ref=90200&ref2=10

[James_57]

We have a silk screen shop were I work, we changed from fluorescent to LED and they
can leave the lights on in the dark room when setting up the film.

[mobiledynamics]

James -

I'm not guru. From my own wiki, I believe the FS CFL put's out more UV than the LEDS.

With that said, these new LEDS are touted as FS with UV/IR, yadda, yadda, etc. The only merit point I can say is the the ~cannabis~ growers who grow indoors love these types of lights. The benchmark for me is too early too tell - as literally, I've only been using mine for 3 weeks or so

[James_57]

I don't know but the 5000k lights we put in will not expose the film, the t12 fluorescents would.