SuperLED Preview - May 26, 2008
A couple of weeks ago, SuperLed sent me a light for testing. This version is the
LightBlaze 400 with 16 XR-E Blues and 40 XR Reds. Thanks much to SuperLED for sending
this along!
According to SuperLED, they are still grow testing trying various spectrums, etc,
so this light may or may not end up being a final production model. When they sent
it to me, I thought it would be interesting to
try an immediate blossom test as
opposed to a full grow test.
As you know, I have some peppers grown for months with the LGM5s that didn't produce
any peppers. Ending the test and putting the UFO on the three plants for three
weeks yielded the following peppers. These counts stayed the same for about a week
and progress stopped there. A vast improvement over the LGM5s. The UFO seemed to
work well on the center plant, but the left and right plants didn't seem to repond
as well.
With UFO:
Left plant = 0
Center = 11
Right = 3
When the SuperLED light arrived on May 4th, I replaced the UFO with the SuperLED.
Seems the pepper plants picked up again and are now fruiting very well and counts
as of today (some of them I picked, but most of them still in the photos)
With SuperLED:
Left Plant = 17
Center Plant = 25
Right Plant = 19
Seems the extra power of the SuperLED and the XR-E blue/Red ratio in this light
is great for fruiting peppers for sure. The plants are doing
well and staying healthy.
Overall the light seems very nice. Compared to the
Procyon it is a little smaller
in length, but a little wider and taller. Basically the cases themselves are very
similiar.
The SuperLED light does run very cool. The LightBlaze runs about 41C and theProcyon
about 51C according to my infrared thermometer. The light footprint seems to be
about tthe same as far as using my LUX meter (please remember this is totally crude
way of measuring)
I plan to do further testing withh the SuperLED light (start-to-finish). However,
SuperLED mentioned sending me another proto-type with some different LEDs yet to
be determined. Hopefully we can do a side-by-side with the two different configurations
and see how they work with each
other. More on this as SuperLED updates me.