Hey everyone....
I wanted to see how many others out there were having heat issues with their LED grow lights.
The issue: My issue with ALL current LED grow lights is they all advertise "lower heat". I find this not entirely true and even though there is some truth to the lights running at cooler operating temperatures, *bulb temp, but I don't find any of my LED grow lights reducing the heat of my grow area over HID...
Now where this problem lies...All LED lights currently on the market have fans that either suck air in, or blow air out... Now the problem with the current design of LED grow lights is that you have something evacuating "warm/hot" air from the light, into your garden/grow area, without any way to evacuate the heat like HID lights do with air cooled hoods and such...this is whats causing a heating up of a tent. Its like putting a heating pad in a box...eventually, even though the heating pad is cool to the touch for a human (wont burn) it still will over time heat up that box, because the heat is building up in the box, without means of excape. Same as the LED lights... May not be hot to touch, but still let heat fill your grow area...
So even though the lights may run cooler overall, they do not offer a solution to extract the hot air from the light and push it outside of your tent....
I wanted to know if anyone else is having issues with LED grow lights heating up your grow environment more or equal to HID lights...
I know that both of my brands of LED I have used do this, and actually run hotter than my 1000w setup I had, only running 600w of LED.... My Top LED tent used to run about 82F with my HID's on full blast, currently it is running around 84-85F with the Mars II, not a decrease in Temps at all...
Who else noticed this, what model do you have, did you find a solution????
I wanted to see how many others out there were having heat issues with their LED grow lights.
The issue: My issue with ALL current LED grow lights is they all advertise "lower heat". I find this not entirely true and even though there is some truth to the lights running at cooler operating temperatures, *bulb temp, but I don't find any of my LED grow lights reducing the heat of my grow area over HID...
Now where this problem lies...All LED lights currently on the market have fans that either suck air in, or blow air out... Now the problem with the current design of LED grow lights is that you have something evacuating "warm/hot" air from the light, into your garden/grow area, without any way to evacuate the heat like HID lights do with air cooled hoods and such...this is whats causing a heating up of a tent. Its like putting a heating pad in a box...eventually, even though the heating pad is cool to the touch for a human (wont burn) it still will over time heat up that box, because the heat is building up in the box, without means of excape. Same as the LED lights... May not be hot to touch, but still let heat fill your grow area...
So even though the lights may run cooler overall, they do not offer a solution to extract the hot air from the light and push it outside of your tent....
I wanted to know if anyone else is having issues with LED grow lights heating up your grow environment more or equal to HID lights...
I know that both of my brands of LED I have used do this, and actually run hotter than my 1000w setup I had, only running 600w of LED.... My Top LED tent used to run about 82F with my HID's on full blast, currently it is running around 84-85F with the Mars II, not a decrease in Temps at all...
Who else noticed this, what model do you have, did you find a solution????