dansmith
Seedling
Hello all, what i would like to know is, are gu10 led's a viable source of light for plants?.
I have seen some 3 watt led's in gu10 form that are 5500k have a 60 degree light spread and also have a built in heat sink. Iam not really into soldering and driver choice and other general wiring issues so i thought these would be ok. If these are ok how many would be the equivelant of a 38 watt t8 ?.These are the tubes i would be using anyway, and three of these equalls 114 watts which equates to 2.1 wpg on my 52 (us) gallon tank(46,uk) . i dont really want to go over 2 wpg and may just use two tubes and however many leds are equivelant to the third tube, this way there will be a reasonable amount of usable light (2 x 38 watt = 1.64 wpg)for the plants(anubias bolbitis, java ferns and crypts) and i should get some glitter lines from the led's.
thanks in advance, daniel.
I have seen some 3 watt led's in gu10 form that are 5500k have a 60 degree light spread and also have a built in heat sink. Iam not really into soldering and driver choice and other general wiring issues so i thought these would be ok. If these are ok how many would be the equivelant of a 38 watt t8 ?.These are the tubes i would be using anyway, and three of these equalls 114 watts which equates to 2.1 wpg on my 52 (us) gallon tank(46,uk) . i dont really want to go over 2 wpg and may just use two tubes and however many leds are equivelant to the third tube, this way there will be a reasonable amount of usable light (2 x 38 watt = 1.64 wpg)for the plants(anubias bolbitis, java ferns and crypts) and i should get some glitter lines from the led's.
thanks in advance, daniel.