
More often than not, if you see a picture of horticultural lighting in a Dutch grow-room, or greenhouse, it's a P. L. Horizontal Reflector. Hortilux Schreder Labs developed the P. L. Reflectors. The reflectors are manufactured using high quality aluminum (99. 8% pure), then polished and anodized, resulting in a microscopically facetted surface. This creates a highly efficient, uniformly diffused light pattern. Light intensity will decrease with an increase in distance from the light source. It is because of this law of nature that a smaller reflector will reflect more light than a larger one, due to less distance between the light source and the reflective surface. P.L. Reflector Systems are the most efficient reflectors available to the hobby grower. These reflectors will reflect more light with an even distribution to your plants when compared to other reflectors.
Since 1976, P.L.Light Systems have shined in greenhouses around the world. Now we've taken all that know-how and put it into our new hobby light remote fixture systems. Good lightning is the result of even distribution. Our advanced lightning systems are made with one-piece aluminum reflectors which deliver an intense, uniform light for even growth of plants. Our new mounting collar makes them durable and easy to maintain.
The HPS lamp is the most energy efficient lamp for supplemental lighting. About 30% of the electric energy input is converted into PAR (400-700 nm. Only 14% of the light energy is in the waveband between 400 and 565 nm, most of the rest in the region up to 700 nm. An example is the 400W SON-T Plus, which has two high-radiant energy peaks in yellow and orange, in 565-590 nm and 590-625 nm, respectively caused by the sodium vapor. The light output during lamp life will drop less then 10%, in addition the useful life of HPS lamps is twice that for MH lamps. The newer 600W HPS lamps have a higher PAR yield compared to the 400W lamps. This is possibly caused by a considerable shift of the radiant energy from orange to red. For the same light intensity, fewer 600W fixtures are needed, so that the investment and energy costs are lower and the shadow effect is reduced.
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