 Real life comparative experiment |
| Review Date: June 7, 2009 |
| Reviewer: W. R. Valiunas, Illinois United States |
I am going to make this simple. I have this unit, a fixture with an Incandescent grow bulb matching the comparative rated wattage this unit states, and a CFL growth light matching the comparative wattage as well.
I have all three surrounding a set of four plants. In a kind of triangle format, meaning one third of the plants space covered by incandescent on third covered by CFL and one third by this unit all pretty much as symmetric as possible. All of the bulbs and fixtures are professional grade.
All the plants lean to this light. No matter how I do it. I switch locations the plants follow this unit. I move this one to an odd position within a day the plants follow.
So I took the other two out (CFL and incandescent) and replaced them with two more of these. And WOW! The growth was exponential.
I will never go back to incandescent or CFL. I have four more of these type units, larger sizes, on order now.
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Better than you would expect
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| Review Date: March 19, 2009 |
| Reviewer: C. Geliebter, |
I expected this to be made cheaply for some reason. Maybe because I was unfamiliar with this. To my surprise, this panel is actually pretty well made. Although to some this may seem pricy and there are cheaper ones out there, this is the best for the money. Here's why-
- The LED's are larger than the typical size LED's.
- The LED's are set well so they will not bend and everything feels very sturdy.
- Standard plug, no wiring hassles
- The light which this puts off will impress you for sure (it really does rival a 60w HPS)
- The full spectrum gives off blue and red light for optimal growth stages and flowering stages
- No heat output
- 14w! Less power= less $ |
Amazing Product - Exceeds Expectations
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| Review Date: December 30, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Ash Patel, cincinnati, oh United States |
For the past 10 years, I have been growing herbs, peppers and vegetables outside during the summer. Everything I plant is started by seed. I have made several attempts to bring different plants inside during the winter and none have made it. This winter, I was determined to be able to cook using fresh ingredients.
I spent dozens of hours researching grow lights, hydroponics etc. I have read several scientific studies as well as reviews on different indoor gardening methods. My research led me to this 14 watt LED Grow Panel. I would have loved to have bought a metal halide lamp, however, there are some overwhelming reasons I did not. My plants are next to a window so they can get some natural sunlight during the winter. I did not want an excessively bright light shining from my window. I have four 100 watt metal halide lights around my house and they illuminate my 2 acre lot like its daytime. I cannot imagine what one of these lights would do indoors, not to mention the heat and possible fire hazard. My neighbors would probably think we are getting abducted by aliens.
I ordered the grow panel and received it in just a couple of days. My grow light shines on two Thai pepper plants in their own pots, a pot of sage and two large pots with various tropical house plants. The room stays around 60 degrees (not optimal for growing) and all of the plants are thriving. The light is on a timer and stays on only from 7pm to 7am. During most of our Winter days, the sun barely makes an appearance. I had a sun room in my last home and was able to grow most things indoors (during the summer only). The one thing that NEVER grew indoors was any kind of peppers. The sun room would be a consistent 85 degrees with full sunlight. The pepper plants would look great but no peppers. As soon as I brought the plants outside, boom...peppers.
Today, in the middle of Winter, my two pepper plants are sprouting a ton of new peppers. We have plenty of fresh sage and the house plants are as green as ever. All of this in 60 degree temperature. You will not go wrong with this product.
In regards to the two negative reviews about this product. Compact fluorescents or tube lights DO NOT produce results anywhere close to this product. As far as the comment about "the whole industry would use this product if it worked", C'mon. Where have you seen commercial green houses use any type of grow light? Green houses/nurseries are a seasonal business. Why would they sell plants in January? Its much cheaper to import produce from southern climates than to populate a green house with grow lights!
Incidentally, I had a minor issue with my grow panel 35+ days after it was purchased. The vendor replied almost instantaneously and went out of their way to make it right. If you plan on doing any indoor gardening or starting your own seeds, you will love this product! |
SO much simpler!
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| Review Date: March 16, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Happy User, Minnesota |
| I'm just starting out with grow lights. It's easy to be overwhelmed- Should I get HPS, metal halide or fluorescents lights? Then there is the buying of the bulb, the ballast, the reflector, the timer... This was an all in one-just plug it in and go. It has no on/off switch, but I haven't found that to be an issue. This has both red and blue output so it's suitable for all types of plants. I don't know how well it would work with large plants; I'm using it to start seedlings. After a month, my tomatoes are 4" high, my nasturtium is lush, and even my okra plant is 2"-I've never been able to sprout okra indoors before. |
GlowPanel used in office LED lighting venture
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| Review Date: October 8, 2009 |
| Reviewer: F. Unger, |
I got GlowPanel today (10/7/09). In fact, it is already hung using included hanging kit and has been nursing my sick shamrock for several hours. I have given GlowPanel five stars because the things other posters had indicated about it are true, solid construction and jumbo-sized LEDs.
I chose GlowPanel over other units based on information in posts in this section and because a GlowPanel representative promptly addressed my frivolous email questions about the unit.
How this all got started, as if I have nothing else to do, I decided to convert office to LED lighting. And while I decided on a home-made solution, lighting my desk relatively cheaply with budget LEDs, I did something profoundly stupid in experimenting. While my initial investment in LED lighting has proved satisfactory, deciding to stop using the ceiling fluorencent tubes was a bad idea since there were plants in the room. And while a shamrock (that thing must be a weed)survived my unintentional "nuclear winter," I lost other plants.
But I have now begun a desktop conservatory based on the GlowPanel. And the big concern, possibly having to explain to clients the bright red and blue LEDs, has been resolved. It turns out that while the LEDs are distinctly red and blue when you look directly at them (box warns against looking directly at them when unit is on), the overall lighting effect is not a distracting psychedelic, but largely white light with subtle red and blue hilites. No big deal. Note that the LEDs don't have any color when off, just clear, transparent plastic.
So regardless that I haven't had the GlowPanel for 24 hours yet, I am a happy camper.
Also, note that the numbers that I was looking for with LED lighting from a non-political green objective are the following. While I used to use 160 watts of ceiling fluorescent tubes for 8+ hours/day, I am now using under 20 watts of LED lighting, actually just a couple of watts more than the 14 watts that the GlowPanel takes.
Finally, I'm going to unplug the GlowPanel since I'm leaving work. This is just a precaution since I've only had it for a few hours. But feeling the top side of the unit, particularly the corner with the electrical cord, and half of adjacent side, is the only significantly warm part of the unit. This is presumably where the AC/DC converter is. The few screw heads in this area are hot but that's no surprise. Otherwise, the unit is not hot, or significantly warm.
Next day:
I found a problem with GrowPanel! Actually an insignificant problem, IMO.
The AC plug of the GrowPanel is an inexpensive two-prong, thin blade type. But such a plug is fully justified, IMO, since the unit doesn't draw that much current. The problem is...
What I noticed today when when I plugged in the panel is that one, or both, of the plug's blades were evidently not making contact with the blades inside the receptacle, so the unit wasn't turning on regardless that the plug appeared to be fully inserted into the receptacle. And I tried several different receptacles, twisting the plug a bit, finally forcing the blades to make contact. Unit has remained lit without problems.
But this is not an unusual problem with plugs and recepticales. In fact, I've deliberately bent a plug blade slightly on occasion to force a better contact with receptacle blade. |
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