How to judge the quality of an LED grow light? That cooling technology must be one of them. All electronic products are faced with heat dissipation problems, mainly depending on how to solve them?
Below we will learn:
1. Why is heat dissipation essential?
2. Will LED grow lights generate heat?
3. How to reduce the heating of LED grow lights?
4. What is good heat dissipation?
Why heat dissipation is essential
All electronic products need heat dissipation. LED grow lights are no exception. If they work for a long time, they will generate a lot of heat. If the heat dissipation problem is not solved, it will first affect the LED grow light lamp bead decay and other issues, secondly it may cause a short circuit, and finally it will always affect the LED. The service life of grow lights.
Will LED grow lights heat up?
No electronic product can avoid generating heat. Compared with the HID lamp, the LED grow lamp itself does not generate heat in the form of infrared radiation, but the lamp itself generates heat.
How to reduce the heat of LED grow lights
There are two main ways: active cooling and passive cooling.
Active cooling: The most common way is to install a fan. When there is not enough airflow, you may need to consider installing a fan around the LED grow lights to get more airflow to create a cool environment.
Passive cooling: Passive is its own heat dissipation. That is, the LED grow light itself uses high thermal conductivity materials and shell heat dissipation design.
What is good heat dissipation
In addition to using a fan, the heat dissipation of the LED grow light itself is also very important.
High thermal conductivity material
Aluminum is widely used in the industry. Our LED grow lights use extruded aluminum to conduct heat outward, which not only has a beautiful appearance, but also improves heat dissipation efficiency.
Fin design
When we use die-cast aluminum to make the heat-conducting shell, we also carry out fin heat dissipation design, so that there is enough area to contact with air to generate convection heat dissipation.
How important is the reliability of LED grow light heat dissipation?
Reliable heat dissipation performance can bring us convenience in the following aspects:
1. Relatively prolong the service life of LED grow lights, the service life of LED grow lights is about 50,000 hours. If the heat dissipation is not good, the internal structure will age quickly, and the service life will definitely be greatly reduced.
2. Luminous efficiency, any artificial light source has light decay. A very important factor that affects the speed of light decay is temperature. High temperature will accelerate the aging of the material. Also use an LED grow light, and use it for 50,000 hours. In a high temperature environment, an environment where the temperature is safe to use lights, the crops that are irradiated and growed will undoubtedly be higher in the total yield and quality of the latter than the former.
3. The effective heat dissipation configuration of the LED grow light can also help control the ambient temperature. If no heat dissipation measures are taken for the grow light, the local temperature around the light will be slightly higher for a long time, and the growth state of the grow will definitely be different from other places. As a result, it is not conducive to the overall temperature control of the greenhouse or grow factory.
When purchasing LED grow lights, the reliability of heat dissipation is a very important technical indicator, which will have a direct and obvious impact on the yield and quality of later growed crops.
