Believing in LED or choosing for HPS?

" What started as interlighting , was survey by the top light . How long it will take before every grower has full LED lighting in their greenhouse , we do not know , but we have come a long path with respect to proficiency . Still , not every cultivator is making the switch to LED , and that is because HPS has prove its worth in the preceding years . " This is what René Polak tells us . After a piddling roundabout way in water purification , he returned to familiar reason at the end of last year . Since October , he ’s been work on for BLV , where he is responsible for the sale in the Benelux . Over the years , he has gained a spate of experience in the development of lighting in horticulture .

Ten years growth of LED"When I start ten year ago , we were exclusively working with gamey pressure atomic number 11 lamp with electromagnetic fixtures . Over the years , both the electronics and the lamp has been further improved . The centering is now on LED lighting , which should provide vigour deliverance . In the beginning , we needed lots of LEDs to produce the same quantity of brightness level as a traditional HPS lamp . After 10 year of examination and developing , we have almost extend to the leg that a 1000 Watt fixture can be put back 1 on 1 with an LED fixture . "

Replacement?In cattiness of this , a tidy sum of agriculturist still choose for HPS . " Everybody believes in LED , but in recent geezerhood HPS has show itself beyond question in the Dutch mood . The chief advantage of HPS lamps is that they do not only supply luminousness , but also heat . If you opt for LED , you ’ll have to set up outgrowth tubes to wield the temperature for the plant life . In southern land , growers more easily purchase full LED kindling , while growers in the north really require the warmth supplied by the HPS fixtures . "

Heat and co - generationThe northerly European grower who does purchase LED , may have different reasons for doing so . " If they want to increase their ignition , they can choose for LED so the thermal direction remain unaltered . Others opt LED because they have an electricity nimiety of their Colorado - contemporaries . Too piddling for HPS lamps , but enough for light-emitting diode fix to dilate their lighting . "

come back on investing is becoming shorterRené : " moreover , the lower vigor use of light-emitting diode is of form an authoritative reason to buy LED fixtures . The investment funds is , in many case , even 5 to 6 time higher , making the return - on - investment period quite a bit longer than with traditional fixture . To reduce your energy use in the long term , you first have to bear up to make the replacement . The yield on investing has become shorter in recent eld , and as we betray more LED , the col will become small . "

spread reflectorHPS and LED , BLV sells both . All is done in - house by the to begin with German company , the production of the lamp , the ballast resistor , and the fix with the open reflecting telescope to dilute the oestrus in the lamp and electronics . " The two opening night on the side of the lamp release the heat . This benefits the longevity of the lamp . " The system has been developed in Germany , and is produced in the BLV branches in Germany and Poland . The international sales squad of BLV operates from Munich , Germany , Warsaw , Poland , and Oude Meer in the Netherlands . " This not only makes us flexible , but sometimes - consecrate that every mediator in a strand require to make some money - more attractive in terms of price . "

For more entropy : René PolakBLV / Netherlands+31 62 1826 131www.blv-licht.com