LED Grow Light Kit

Description

This indoor grow kit is designed to make purchasing and setting-up your own DIY LED grow light simple. The MakersLED heat sink design is an excellent choice for grow applications, it easily mounts or hangs, has a rugged design and fan to help dissipate heat and the t-slots provide a perfect way to secure the LED board.  The printed LED circuit board(s) that the kit comes with has a total of 30 multi-spectrum LEDs per board.  It is custom designed for the MakersLED and the LEDs have been placed in specific locations to make connections solderless and mix the wavelengths up evenly.  The LED board includes screw-in terminal jacks for fast connections to power and holes for securing the board to the heatsink as well as holes for mounting secondary lenses to focus the light. To help with the planning and building process, we include a wiring schematic and step-by-step instructions as well as a video tutorial; basically everything you need to have a high-quality, working, long-lasting indoor LED grow light. Below is a complete list of the product IDs that are included so if you wish to research the components and their capabilities you can.

LEDs

Simulating natural sunlight should be the objective of any grow light, which is what we considered when picking the array used here. A formal list is below in the chart: we used Far Red (740nm), Photo Red or Deep Reed (660nm), Red (630nm), Royal Blue (450nm) and Warm-White (covers the entire spectrum, but peaks around 450nm and 660nm).

Each board has 5 channels of LEDs; each channel has a total of 6 LEDs in-series, making a total of 30 LEDs per board. The center row is Royal-Blue, the surrounding rows are mixed with Red and white and the two outside rows are Photo Red and Far Red.

Lengths

This LED grow kit is scalable, because every plant and every grow set-up is different we offer different length, which allows for more grow boards on one heat sink. The standard lengths are in increments of 10-inches up to 40-inches. A 10-inch kit would include 1 grow board, a 20-Inch kit would include 2 LED boards and a 40-inch kit would include 4 grow boards.

Wattage

Grow lights are commonly categorized by wattage. But, because LEDs are more efficient that older grow light technologies, you can't compare LED wattage with Metal-Halide (MH) or High Intensity Discharge (HID). We consider a 100-watt LED light to be equivalent to a 200-watt MH or HID. Using low voltage LEDs, in addition to saving energy, also are much safer and cooler than the MH or HID. This significanly lowers costs and helps keep your grow area from getting too hot. For a comprehensive overview on growing with LEDs, check out this post: 5-Steps to Super Yields with LEDs: Indoor Growing Guide that Actually Tells You How!

Controller Option

Besides deciding how much light/wattage/coverage you need for your plants. We also offer a controller with this grow kit that allows you to easily set the time-of-day and control when the light turns on and off. The controller also can ramp up and ramp down the light at the beginning and end of the day to simulate sunrise and sunset. We like this feature as it simulate the natural environment. The controller has other features as well, which can allow you to control light output of each channel individually and create moonlight, cloud cover and lightning storms.

LED Specifications

Kit Components

Full Documentation

Wiring Schematic

Step-by-Step Instruction