Today, many growers use LED grow lights to grow vegetables, fruits, and flowers on a large scale in greenhouses or vertical farms. However, there are still some farmers who don’t know much about the advantages of LED grow lights. Today we will share more details to let you know about the most useful and popular multi-bar LED grow lights.
What are multi-bar LED grow lights?
Speaking of multi-bar grow lights, it is necessary to mention single-bar lights. A grow light bar is a slender lamp with a series of LEDs on it. Multiple single-bar lights can be combined into rectangular lamps, which are called multi-bar lights.
What are the benefits of growing plants with multi-bar grow lights?
Better growth
These lights produce balanced full-spectrum light to promote efficient photosynthesis in plants. So your plants can bloom and bear fruit at a faster rate.
Grow Easier and more flexibly
You don’t need to spend more time and energy studying whether the weather conditions are suitable for your plants. You can place multi-bar LED grow lights anywhere without any concerns such as basements, greenhouses, and houses without enough sunlight.
Keep the flavor of crops stable and increase nutrients
The light color not only helps the development of plants but also helps improve the taste and quality of crops and increase the nutritional content of crops.
Pest control
The light emitted by grow lamps can prevent pest movement because they can change the sleep pattern of pests, making them rest during the day and inactive at night. In addition, grow lights can also enhance the immunity of plants by strengthening plant roots and stems, thereby achieving the purpose of pest control.
What are the applications of multi-bar LED grow lights?
Commercial Greenhouses: Whether you grow vegetables, flowers, or fruits in a greenhouse, multi-bar LEDs can provide uniform and efficient light to allow you to produce more and better crops. In addition, multi-bar lights save energy and reduce planting costs.
Indoor farming: Multi-bar lights provide adjustable brightness and spectrum to meet the lighting conditions required for indoor plant growth. In addition, multi-bar LED lights reduce heat and minimize damage to crops.
Medicinal marijuana: Multi-bar LEDs provide precise light to encourage the development of medicinal cannabis and the production of desired compounds. Additionally, they reduce pollution and ensure the safety of medicinal plants.
What are the advantages of multi-bar LED grow Lights over LED grow light panels?
Better Light Distribution
Multi-bar grow lights offer better light distribution because they can minimize the effects of shadows. They are more popular in larger growing areas because they provide consistent light across the plant. However, the light they emit is not as concentrated as LED panels.
More Energy Efficient
Both lights are more energy-efficient than traditional fixtures. Nonetheless, multi-bar LEDs are generally considered more energy-efficient than LED panels. This is because multi-bar LED lights emit a more accurate light distribution, making it easier to provide the necessary amount of light to each crop. The multi-bar design also helps reduce heat dissipation, which lowers operating temperatures and reduces energy waste.
Better Heat Dissipation
Due to their structure, multi-bar LED grow lights generally generate less heat than LED panels. The LED chips in multi-bar LED grow lights are placed linearly along the length of the bar. This design distributes the heat generated by the LED chips over a larger surface area, allowing for better heat dissipation. In addition, multi-bar LED grow lights have larger heat sinks that help dissipate the heat emitted by the LED chips. LED panels, on the other hand, are made of flat PCBs, which are more compact and smaller in size. This design does not dissipate heat effectively, resulting in higher operating temperatures.
How high do multi-bar grow lights need to be hung?
Lights too close can cause plants to burn and wilt, killing them quickly. Hang the grow lights too high and the plants will stretch, resulting in long, thin stems and very fragile branches.
When plants are in the seedling stage, the lights should be kept 24-36 inches away. During the vegetative growth stage, you should increase the distance between the light and the plant (probably between 12 and 24 inches). In the flowering stages, you can keep the height 18-24 inches from the crop.
How to choose a multi-bar grow light?
LED chip brand
The easiest way to distinguish between high-quality LED chips and low-quality LED chips is to refer to the brand. If the light fixture is made with well-known brand chips, the quality, efficacy, and light output are guaranteed. The best LED grow light chips on the market today come from Samsung. Typically, high-quality LED grow lights mainly use Samsung LED chips. Of course, there are other high-quality LED chip manufacturers, such as Osram and Epistar.
Cheap LED grow lights with low-quality LED chips will most likely not produce the right wavelength of light for your crops to thrive. In addition, they may have a short lifespan, which speeds up the frequency of replacing your lights.
LED Chip Model
In addition to the brand of the LED chip, pay attention to the chip model. Different models of chips play different roles in the performance of the plant growth light.
Take Samsung chips for example. The Samsung LM281 model series has the lowest efficiency of all Samsung models. The LM301 model is the best. The Samsung LM301D LED chip in the LM301 series provides the least energy in this series. So you have better opt for the LM301H and LM301B models.
Quantity of LED Chips
When you find two lights using the same brand and model of chips, it is time to check the number of LED chips.
Uniformity of PPFD
What if two different multi-bar lights have the same LED chip brand and model, and a similar number of LED chips? The final tiebreaker is to look at the PPFD map. So why not look at lumens? Lumens are measured purely based on the human eye, but LED grow lights are not designed for human beings, but for plants.
To measure light for plants, we need to count the number of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) molecules that hit a specific area per second. This calculation is called the photosynthetic photon flux (PPF). And PPFD measures the amount of PPF in square meters (m2).
Uniform PPFD is extremely important. You need to avoid grow lights that have a high PPFD in the middle and a low PPFD at the edges. This means that most of the energy of the light goes only to the middle, resulting in wasted energy and hot spots.
You should choose an LED grow light with uniform PPFD, such as the Casyoo that evenly illuminates the entire growing area. These LED grow lights are manufactured with PPFD uniformity in mind.
About us
Casyoo multi-bar LED grow lights can be customized in terms of power to meet the needs of your growing space. We now have 320W, 480W, 600W, 640W, 800W and 1000W available. Rest assured, all our LEDs feature Samsung and Osram chips. With an amazing efficiency of 2.8 μmol/J, our grow lights are designed to provide you with excellent results. Talk to us now!
