California Lightworks Assessment: USA-Made LED Develop Lights

In the present day we’re a LED develop gentle firm out of California, aptly named California Lightworks. I’ll be their product line, inspecting their know-how and firm coverage, and truly rising in one among their new flagship merchandise: SolarXtreme 500.

Let’s get into it – however earlier than we do, right here’s a deep dive into their manufacturing facility primarily based in California. I discovered this video fascinating, as a result of in contrast to many different LED firms I’ve reviewed, they’ve given folks a glance backstage and truly proven their total manufacturing facility:

Fast Take

For the mid-range hobbyist grower, California Lightworks places collectively extraordinarily strong LED develop lights at a worth that’s nonetheless reasonably priced for the non-professional grower.

I lean in direction of the SolarXtreme line myself, as I choose the COB LED develop gentle design over the basic Osram diodes, and the truth that I don’t have to regulate the spectrum over the course of an indoor develop makes life a little bit bit simpler for me. It additionally doesn’t damage that the SolarXtreme line is a bit cheaper!

What Sort of LEDs Do They Use?

The LEDs that California Lightworks makes use of of their lights actually is determined by the product line you’re .

For the SolarSystem line, they use Osram diodes, a number of the finest at school, and at the side of the SolarSystem controller, you possibly can alter the spectrum of the develop gentle in a couple of days:

• View Mode: A white gentle for nice working in your develop room
• Computerized Dawn / Sundown: Excessive blue, low purple in veg and excessive purple, low blue in bloom for optimized yields over the course of a crop’s life cycle.

When trying on the SolarXtreme line, you may discover that the LEDs look fairly totally different. It is because they use a proprietary COB LED design for this line, with a hard and fast (however full-spectrum) output.

So, whilst you aren’t capable of customise the spectrum all through the course of a develop, consider it as California Lightworks programming the develop gentle from the get go together with a custom-made spectrum designed to take a plant from vegetative to flowering section with out having to regulate the spectral output.

Additional Assets:

Guarantee Coverage

California Lightworks provides a 5 yr guarantee on the SolarSystem line, and a 3 yr guarantee on the SolarXtreme line. Each a strong period of time given the lifespan of those lights. You can not tamper with the sunshine or attempt to make any modifications to the lumaires, you’ll void the guarantee.

Additionally they provide a 90 day a refund assure, if for any cause you’re dissatisfied with the product. All it’s worthwhile to do is give them a short rationalization of the rationale for returning and also you’ll be refunded your buy, as long as you’ve saved the sunshine in new situation.

Product Line

As talked about a couple of occasions, there are actually two important traces for the typical grower, with the ultimate GreenHouse Professional line for large-scale growers. Under, you’ll discover all the lights damaged down by product line and dimension, with the spectral outputs and specs included.

SolarSystem

SolarSystem 275 VEG

SolarSystem 275

SolarSystem 550 VEG

SolarSystem 550

SolarSystem 1100

SolarSystem 1100 UVB

SolarXtreme

SolarXtreme 250

SolarXtreme 500

SolarXtreme 1000

GreenHousePro

GH Professional 340