• Since the plant growing lights do not get hot,  I can put them right on the top of my plants.
-Although you cannot burn your plants under your led light bar, the LGM5 must be placed a minimum of 18” from the top/side of your plants and the LGM1
and LGM3 need a minimum of 12”.  This minimum space allows individual wavelengths to combine from one LED to the next before reaching the plant
canopy.  Further is almost always better.  We have clients who use our grow lighting up to 6’ from the plant canopy.  Because the LED Grow Master bars use
the wavelengths of light that are most efficiently absorbed by plants, the light source is extremely potent.  Putting the bars too close can result in the same
symptoms you would see by moving an indoor plant into direct sunlight outdoors.  

  • I can use LED plant growing lights  to replace the HPS in my indoor garden and expect equal growth.
- In a greenhouse situation or room where plants have access to sunlight, this is true of the LED light bar.  If growing indoors, without the use of any sunlight,
LED light bars are best used in a hybrid system.  There are several options for configuring this system.  For instance, instead of running 1,000 watts of HPS
for the entire photoperiod, you would run the HPS for one hour in the morning, one hour in the afternoon, and one hour before the lights go off (or 30
minutes every 3 hours), then run our grow lighting for the entire photoperiod.  The advantages in this situation lie in the ability to reduce electrical use by
over 70%, eliminate overheating of the grow space, and increase the lifetime of your HPS.  This isn’t to say that you cannot grow indoors with our plant
growing lights only.  Using only our led light bars you will see natural growth rates (the rates seen in an outdoor garden).   Most indoor gardeners are able to
at least double these rates with a hybrid system.

  • If there is not a high lumen rating, plant growing lights won't work.
- Lumens and Lux are measurements of how bright a light source appears to the human eye.  Since the human eye is most sensitive to colors plants don’t
need, and least sensitive to colors plants prefer, Lumens can’t be used to accurately compare the plant growing capability of grow lighting.  If a manufacturer
of plant growing lights rates the grow light output in Lumens- they are only telling you how bright the light will appear to you and light your room, not how well
it will grow your plants.  The most accurate unit of measurement for comparing grow lights is the microEinstein, which measures how many photons of light
strike an area per second.   

  • NASA studies show that red and blue LED grow lighting is what is needed to grow plants.
- The NASA studies didn't really use only red and blue light sources.  They used  red LEDs, which were readily available at the time, plus a small amount of
fluorescent lighting to provide the blue component.  Why?  Because blue LEDs hadn't yet been invented.  The true result of the early NASA experiments was
that using red LEDs along with fluorescent lighting, which contains many colors of light, provided reasonable plant growth, but not that plants will grow well
using only red and blue LEDs.  The LED Grow Master uses 6 different bands of color for the full spectrum of light needed for healthy plant growth.  
Common Misconceptions about the LED Light Bar
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LED light bars attached to vertically adjustable PVC frame.
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