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FranJan

FranJan

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Intelligent Light Source LEDs Tapped In Early Round with Top Marijuana Investors
http://www.ledinside.com/news/2015/1/intelligent_light_source_leds_tapped_in_early_round_with_top_marijuana_investors
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This week, Intelligent Light Source (ILS) will formally introduce its highly anticipated horticultural science-based commercial LED lighting products at ArcView, the leading marijuana industry investor conference. After winning a virtual pitch competition to become one of only three startups automatically qualified to present to top investors, excitement has been building for the company.

"Only the very best and most promising startups are invited to take the stage at the ArcView Conference," explained Emily Paxhia, founding partner of Poseidon Asset Management, the nation's leading marijuana industry investment fund. "The ArcView Group provides investors with real, viable opportunities and ILS is poised to light up this event with its disruptive technology, strong market opportunities, and big vision."

ILS's science-based LED lighting applies horticultural research to optimize the yield, potency and flavor characteristics of diverse plants, from high-margin crops like marijuana to everyday salad lettuce. Its patents-pending technology revolves around the most customizable light spectrum available in a grow light system. It enables growers to fine-tune the exact light spectrum for any plant at each stage of growth. Innovative pulse technology delivers high-intensity light closer to the plants along with dawn/dusk biomimicry, which uses far-red spectrum to simulate the sunrise and sunset patterns believed to be integral in regulating plant photosynthetic activity.
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ILS Pro Series LED grow light. (ILS/LEDinside)
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"It's like mother nature on hyper-drive," founder Jack Abbott explained when asked to describe the importance of the new LED technology. "Imagine being able to harness the power of the sun in a concentrated and controlled setting in order to produce plants with more flavor, more nutrients, higher concentrations of key components like THC and CBDs, while using less energy and producing more crops per year."

ILS's lighting systems have gained particular attention from the burgeoning marijuana market in part because of the trust they've gained from academics and established agricultural and food companies.

MIT's CityFarm, for example, is currently using ILS's systems to study scalable indoor agriculture with the goal to develop large-scale food production closer to the point of consumption. In addition, Nature's Source, a leading plant food manufacturer, and Sodexo, one of the world's largest food service companies, are working with ILS to promote indoor agriculture at home and in commercial applications like college cafeterias.​


The application of LED lights to new markets like marijuana is part of the reason WinterGreen Research projected the indoor grow light industry to be worth $3.6 billion by 2020. Many in the industry credit the recent influx of investment and interest in marijuana for fueling the growth and innovation of companies like ILS to adapt to diverse market needs, and to eventually address major global food supply and sustainability issues.

That spillover of innovation is evidenced in ILS's recently concluded successful Kickstarter campaign for its consumer CounterCroptable-top growing system. Within the first week it exceeded its goals with the promise that "anyone can grow anything better indoors" and made the top 30 of all-time best performing food-related products on the crowdfunding site.

"If you can harness the enthusiasm we demonstrated with early adopter consumers during our Kickstarter campaign, in concert with the innovation we're seeing in the commercial LED space, combined with this concentration of investment from the marijuana industry, substantial possibilities to disrupt the model of how we grow and consume food start to become very real, very quickly," ILS co-founde Charles Gillespie said.

Numerous studies have pointed to the fact that our food production cannot keep up with projected population growth. According to Science Daily (April 2014) the world is 40 years away from a global food shortage. That crisis has both humanitarian and environmental implications as traditional agriculture relies on clear cutting land, massive amounts of water, and expensive transportation models to carry the food from production to the point of consumption.

The indoor agriculture movement, from the at-home gardener to the commercial grower, could be a solution to both the pending food shortage while simultaneously addressing many of the negative environmental impacts of traditional commercial agriculture.

"The most powerful vision that fuels the energy we need to be successful is not just about developing the next best LED light or positioning ourselves to serve the immediate need of any single market, no matter how fast it's growing," added Abbott. "It's about funneling that investment, passion and knowledge into a larger mission to change the way we produce and consume plants and food in order to improve people's daily lives and create a more sustainable future for the world."

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FranJan

FranJan

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Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, launched today a LED fixture capable of delivering nearly 100% usable light for plant growth with virtually no wasted energy—Hubbell Industrial Lighting’s NutriLED.

A breakthrough in horticultural technology, the NutriLED provides spectrally tuned light to optimize growth and germination for virtually any indoor horticulture application. With studies showing increased growth rates and yields from growers utilizing LED lighting, now is the time to convert high-pressure sodium (HPS), metal halide and fluorescent to more efficient LED sources.


A breakthrough in horticultural technology, the NutriLED provides spectrally tuned light to optimize growth and germination for virtually any indoor horticulture application.
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Plants only absorb the blue wavelength and red wavelength portion of light, not utilizing any of the other wavelengths. NutriLED’s ideal blend of red and blue wavelengths and light intensities for chlorophyll absorption means there is virtually no wasted energy producing spectrums of light which are not beneficial to plant growth. Offering up to 88% energy savings over traditional non-LED grow lights, the NutriLED delivers an enormous energy and maintenance savings and greatly minimizes waste. As a direct result of significantly reducing the radiant heat produced by conventional lighting technology, water usage can also be reduced up to 50% and the need for supplemental HVAC cooling loads may be completely eliminated for some applications.

Specifically designed to allow for multiple mounting configurations, the NutriLED can be installed linearly or in parallel, providing beneficial light to plants from virtually any angle. Additionally, the NutriLED’s unique optical design delivers controlled, uniform illumination featuring a 60-degree beam spread that yields a 1:1 spacing ratio.

For more information on Hubbell Industrial Lighting’s NutriLED, please visit: http://www.hubbellindustrial.com.
 
FranJan

FranJan

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I really would like to see the ILs 144's. "Red+Blue Auto Balance", interesting if it's really balancing the LEDs outputs in mWs. 1500.00 for the deluxe, 200 for a mini but I don't think you get the fancy controls at that price.

I'm so Web 1.0. I actually go out and look for this shit :).
 
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doctorflux

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Their pricing is at the rather high end... I'm working on a commercial programmable 650W light with a MSRP of $2K, and our controls are infinitely better ;)
 
Greengenes707

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Well this is the most disappointing thing I have seen in a while...
http://www.cree.com/LED-Components-and-Modules/Tools-and-Support/LEDs-Branding-Program/Agricultural

No wonder Bridgelux is about to leave cree in the dust

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Wait, there's more...
http://www.cree.com/LED-Components-and-Modules/Tools-and-Support/LEDs-Branding-Categories
Now look at the pic in there for agricultural...those are lumigro's...that use ZERO cree's.
I'm about to loose my mind at how horrible crees agg department is coming off.
 
puffenuff

puffenuff

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I get why CREE would start the agriculture branding program -- to ensure their name and reputation are only being represented by companies that meet their standards. They need light fixtures using their chips to meet certain requirements. My fear is that if this is the route led diode corporations are heading down (like with Alta and the H4ps) then they may decide it is beneficial for them to make it harder or impossible for individuals to purchase chips altogether. Why would they sell to someone looking to use their chips for a startup light company (or build a diy for a fraction of the cost) when it would be in direct competition with their own product or their partners? It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
 
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Greengenes707

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PSUAGRO.

PSUAGRO.

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Greengenes707 said:
Heliospectra has been doing some good write ups again. I always like their papers. These I think should be read by all.
http://www.heliospectra.com/blog/spectrum-101-absorption-spectra-versus-action-spectra
http://www.heliospectra.com/blog/spectrum-101-action-spectra
http://www.heliospectra.com/blog/what-ask-your-search-best-led-grow-lights

They have more good reads too, if anyone cares to read more...
http://www.heliospectra.com/blog
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Yeah some good stuff......took them out of my spam folder a way back :-P
 
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az2000

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Just saw a new overpriced LED brand at the hydro store. It's called "Truth LED (a division of American Green)." Their motto is "The Truth Hurts."

Seems to be in the category of BlackStar. It's an epi-whatever (rebranded Chinese) light. Not as over-priced and predatory as Blackdog, Lush, Kind, HydroGrowLED, GrowBlu. Won't lose a lot of money on it. But, like Blackstar, you can do better for the money.

Smallest fixture: $550 for 450w (260w actual).
Largest fixture: $1350 for 1200w (760w actual).

It could be worse. Reminds me of Grow Northern before they became innovative (modules using Phillips Luxeon LEDs as an "upgrade" to the rebranded Apollos they were selling at a premium with epi-whatever LEDs.).
 
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doctorflux

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I came across this one today: http://www.growlightspeed.com/

My favorite part:
Nano Technology Is Our Grow Light System
Our scientist developed the reflective surface coating on our fixtures at the Nano-meter level (atom level) placing atom crystals in strategic patterns to produce unsurpassed brilliance with a spectrum of colors impossible to produce until today. In simple terms, our scientists developed our reflective surfaces by arranging and rearranging crystal atoms. These crystals are faceted with millions upon millions of tiny edges sending every color in the light spectrum and obtaining the optimum brilliance, hence our light is the closest to sunlight. This explains the massive brightness our light produces that no one has ever seen. We truly have the most scientific and technologically advanced grow light system ever invented.

I think these scientists have to read up on Mie Scattering Theory and perhaps some fundamentals of thin film coatings.
 
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Tyson457

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Cowboy Kahlil said:
After reading through a lot here, my shortlist now looks like this (plz lemme know if I left out someone critical)

Area 51 LED
Apache Tech
Rapid LEDBonsai Hero, Hans panel
BML Horticulture
LumigrowAdvanced LED lights
Heliospectra
Intelligent Light Source
Bridgelux, V-series (for DIY)
Cree XHP50/XHP70 (for DIY)Evolution Grow LED
LED Grow Lights Depot: retails many
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I use mars-hydro lights and the plants are just filling out much faster than they ever have in veg under 4 600 watt metal halide bulbs. Seriously look at mars-hydro.com they also have great customer service.
 
Bad Karma

Bad Karma

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Tyson457 said:
I use mars-hydro lights and the plants are just filling out much faster than they ever have in veg under 4 600 watt metal halide bulbs. Seriously look at mars-hydro.com they also have great customer service.
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@Cowboy Kahlil, you actually did your homework, and put together a pretty decent list. Don't let this guy fool you, there is a reason why we never recommend Mars Hydro on this forum, and its because they're shit.
 
Bad Karma

Bad Karma

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Cowboy Kahlil said:
BK:

Bad, I look for a lot of corroborating suggestions before I add something to my lists of equipment, nutes, methods and gear. Thanks for the heads up!
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Your welcome, sir. I can tell you from first hand experience that Area 51 has some top of the line LED lights, with only Apache Tech, possibly being better.
How big of a grow area are you trying to cover?
 
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