PRO TECH 430W LED Grow Light VS Kind LED X420 Grow Light

 Budgeting when getting into growing plants is a difficult task.

Prices add up quickly and it can become pretty scary worrying about cheap parts failing during a grow.

This is why growers often turn to LED grow lights.

We’ve taken some time to go through the best LED grow lights that won’t break the bank, but will still work reliably and well for a plants grow.

Our reviews are based on several factors, which we’ll get into, but we try to find the best products for any plants grower. Take a look at what we came up with this year.

How to use Dimmable led grow lights

LED grow lights Dimmable can be a valuable addition to your indoor garden if you know how to use them.

Determining what wattage LED dimmable grow light depends upon factors such as the space available in the growing area, whether there are air-cooled reflectors in place, temperature/humidity levels in your growing area, the wattage of the type of plants being grown, and the stage of plant growth.

LED Dimmable grow lights can be adjusted from 10–100%, which allows indoor growers to fine-tune their led dimmable grow lights so they can produce the healthiest plants possible while minimizing electricity usage. Some plants need more intense light while others do not.

Having a dimmable LED grow allows you to adjust accordingly so that all your plants get the proper lighting they need.

If dimming capabilities are not available for dimmable led grow lights, it can be done manually by sticking a dimmer switch between your lamp cord and dimmable led grow lights.

Dimming can be done with special dimming switches placed between the led grow lights and your timer, so you don’t have to manually dim the light every time you turn it on or off.

Using led dimmable grow lights helps provide the versatility that other forms of lighting cannot offer.

For example, led dimmable grow lights can be used to provide light early in the morning. For instance, dimming down to 30% during the first few hours of lighting before gradually increasing it up to 100%.

The led grow lights dimmable can also be dimmed down very low at night to dim the intensity and put the plants under slight stress for flowering.

PRO TECH 430W LED Grow Light

Features:

Pro Tech LED grow light is a linear multi-light bar fixture producing a high PPF of 1200 µmol/s and a Photon Efficacy (fixture efficiency) of 2.8 µmol/J. Its full spectrum horticultural LED solutions balance light quality (spectra) with light quantity (intensity and duration) sufficient to provide single-source lighting for the entire grow cycle from vegetative through the flowering period. The array of LEDs create a uniform spread of light at a short distance to the crop enabling single source grow lighting for multi-layer cultivation systems, single benches in low rooms, and grow tents. This LED grow light is built using high-quality Pro Tech drivers and top bin LEDs from Samsung and Osram generating a full-spectrum light source ideal for veg and flowering cycles.

Kind LED X420 Grow Light

Features:

The KIND LED grow light uses Full spectrum diodes used by white light LED companies were originally designed for home and office use. Kind’s Targeted Full Spectrum is specifically engineered for plants to maximize harvest weight and plant quality. The X420 is one of the best LEDs you can expose your plants to. The new X Series from KIND use top-bin Osram & Phillips diodes to product a targeted full-sptrum light along with UV and IR to boost your plants during flowering stages. Full spectrum diodes used by white light LED companies were originally designed for home and office use. Kind’s Targeted Full Spectrum is specifically engineered for plants to maximize harvest weight and plant quality.

Buyer’s Guide: Selecting the Best LED Grow Lights

There are quite a few considerations that we take into account before going all-in on a lighting system.

Efficiency
Using LEDs is a bit different than the thought process with HPS lights. More power is not always equal to bigger plants, due to the light efficiency of the way the diodes are set up.

A big consideration with LEDs is using as little power as possible to get plants to thrive. Throw enough light at a plant and it will grow, but we use LEDs because we aren’t trying to break the bank on electric bills.

For a small to medium-sized grow, which is the vast majority of them, anything above 1000W is overkill and seems like a backward way of going about an LED grow. Instead, we look for lights that are arranged for a good spread and can cover all the spectrums our plants could want, using as little light as possible.

Color
Indoor plant responds better to cooler colors as a seedling and warmer colors once it is blooming. This means we want lights that can adjust throughout the growing process. Full-spectrums do work, but if the energy can be redirected to more appropriate colors depending on the stage of growth the plant is in, then that is always better.

Sun-light spectrum lamps tend to work best as supplementary lights, though they have a use in nurseries. Good quality full-spectrums, even though they aren’t ideal, do tend to be readily available and are not actually bad. It’s just less than ideal.

Great grows can, and do, come from full-spectrum LEDs, it’s just when the option to adjust is there always take it.

Quality
Diodes burning out halfway into a grow used to be a big concern for growers a few years ago. It still haunts us today, to a certain extent, but there’s a lot of more quality products on the market now. Good warranties are usually a sign that the company believes in the product, as well as the perspective of other reviewers.

Conclusion

Overall these are my top picks for growing indoors. All of these LED grow lights on this list are full-spectrum and are fully capable of growing many different types of plants indoors. If you are thinking about growing you’re own food I highly recommend these LED grow lights!