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GlowPanel 14 Watt LED Growing Light Panel-Plant Grow Light Rivals 60 Watt Metal Halide/HPS Full Spectrum Growth Lite

by Sunshine Systems

List Price:

$54.95

Sales Rank:

764th

FEATURES

Covers 1.5 Square Feet uniformly
95% energy efficient - lower electric bills!
50,000 hour lifecycle - no replacement bulbs needed!
Discreet - No heat emitted - silent operation
Promotes fast, vigorous plant growth - Dramatically increases yield

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Product Description
The GlowPanel® LED grow light consumes up to 80% less energy than HPS & Metal Halide grow lights and emits virtually no heat. The GlowPanel® covers 1.5 square feet and can be used as a primary or supplemental light source. GlowPanels work great for starting seedlings or to provide additional light to you garden. The GlowPanel® is a plug and play grow light. There are no ballasts or reflectors needed. It works right out of the box. The GlowPanel® lasts 50,000 hours. Hanging kit included. Glow Your Own®. 14 watts/110v Why LED? LEDs produce light more efficiently, can burn brighter longer, emit virtually no heat and the wavelengths of light can be controlled to the nanometer. This is why LEDs are ideal for growing plants; they are extremely energy efficient and can produce the exact spectrum of light that plants love. In fact, LED's work so well that NASA uses LED technology to grow plants in space.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 10 reviews)

if it worked industry would use it by David M. Storms

1 Stars
October 31, 2009
The nursery industry is HUGE..if LEDs worked as advertised every green house in the country would have them.90% less electricity for better quality light? The government would pay you to install them!.Millions of dollars would be at stake and yet no one has converted whole commercial grows to LEDs.If the smart money hasn't jumped on after all these years of claims then it must not work.If I'm wrong, that's great! but until an independent nursery gets into the wall street journal because they installed leds therby slashing their costs, providing a better product,creating jobs and dominating the industry while being green I won't buy one.That's how revolutionary it would be if their claims were true.

I WANT ONE..! G-G by G. Goltz (S/W Montana)

5 Stars
October 30, 2009
THIS SOUNDS LIKE IT'S RIGHT UP MY ALLEY.! YUP.! G-G

GlowPanel used in office LED lighting venture by F. Unger

5 Stars
October 08, 2009
I got GlowPanel today (10/7/09). In fact, it is already hung using included hanging kit and has been nursing my sick shamrock for several hours. I have given GlowPanel five stars because the things other posters had indicated about it are true, solid construction and jumbo-sized LEDs. I chose GlowPanel over other units based on information in posts in this section and because a GlowPanel representative promptly addressed my frivolous email questions about the unit. How this all got started, as if I have nothing else to do, I decided to convert office to LED lighting. And while I decided on a home-made solution, lighting my desk relatively cheaply with budget LEDs, I did something profoundly stupid in experimenting. While my initial investment in LED lighting has proved satisfactory, deciding to stop using the ceiling fluorencent tubes was a bad idea since there were plants in the room. And while a shamrock (that thing must be a weed)survived my unintentional "nuclear winter," I lost other plants. But I have now begun a desktop conservatory based on the GlowPanel. And the big concern, possibly having to explain to clients the bright red and blue LEDs, has been resolved. It turns out that while the LEDs are distinctly red and blue when you look directly at them (box warns against looking directly at them when unit is on), the overall lighting effect is not a distracting psychedelic, but largely white light with subtle red and blue hilites. No big deal. Note that the LEDs don't have any color when off, just clear, transparent plastic. So regardless that I haven't had the GlowPanel for 24 hours yet, I am a happy camper. Also, note that the numbers that I was looking for with LED lighting from a non-political green objective are the following. While I used to use 160 watts of ceiling fluorescent tubes for 8+ hours/day, I am now using under 20 watts of LED lighting, actually just a couple of watts more than the 14 watts that the GlowPanel takes. Finally, I'm going to unplug the GlowPanel since I'm leaving work. This is just a precaution since I've only had it for a few hours. But feeling the top side of the unit, particularly the corner with the electrical cord, and half of adjacent side, is the only significantly warm part of the unit. This is presumably where the AC/DC converter is. The few screw heads in this area are hot but that's no surprise. Otherwise, the unit is not hot, or significantly warm. Next day: I found a problem with GrowPanel! Actually an insignificant problem, IMO. The AC plug of the GrowPanel is an inexpensive two-prong, thin blade type. But such a plug is fully justified, IMO, since the unit doesn't draw that much current. The problem is... What I noticed today when when I plugged in the panel is that one, or both, of the plug's blades were evidently not making contact with the blades inside the receptacle, so the unit wasn't turning on regardless that the plug appeared to be fully inserted into the receptacle. And I tried several different receptacles, twisting the plug a bit, finally forcing the blades to make contact. Unit has remained lit without problems. But this is not an unusual problem with plugs and recepticales. In fact, I've deliberately bent a plug blade slightly on occasion to force a better contact with receptacle blade.

Real life comparative experiment by W. R. Valiunas (Illinois United States)

5 Stars
June 07, 2009
I am going to make this simple. I have this unit, a fixture with an Incandescent grow bulb matching the comparative rated wattage this unit states, and a CFL growth light matching the comparative wattage as well. I have all three surrounding a set of four plants. In a kind of triangle format, meaning one third of the plants space covered by incandescent on third covered by CFL and one third by this unit all pretty much as symmetric as possible. All of the bulbs and fixtures are professional grade. All the plants lean to this light. No matter how I do it. I switch locations the plants follow this unit. I move this one to an odd position within a day the plants follow. So I took the other two out (CFL and incandescent) and replaced them with two more of these. And WOW! The growth was exponential. I will never go back to incandescent or CFL. I have four more of these type units, larger sizes, on order now.

Not for living areas by Norma Lundgren

4 Stars
May 23, 2009
I bought this for the house plants I have in my (dark) living room. It certainly isn't for that as it makes the plants look a pukey brown or such. I moved it to my herb garden and put the herb garden grow light in the living room. The herbs are doing better with this light rather than a flourescent.

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