Press Release 7.26.18
Scynce LED unveils industry’s most powerful and efficient line of smart LED grow lighting solutions for cultivators at NCIA’s Cannabis Business Summit & Expo Scynce LED Holds 13 Patents for Industry’s First Smart LED Grow Lights that Both Increase Yield and Save Energy for Cannabis Growers SAN JOSE, CA – July 26, 2018 – SCYNCE […]
How much light is your plant really getting
Just as humans need to eat fruits, vegetables, grains and protein to survive, plants need light to photosynthesize. It’s their food. That’s why it is so important to scrutinize and optimize the light your plants are getting. Daily or weekly measurement of this light is a critical function of any grower. One thing we hear [...] Come one, come all, come see the amazing Goniospectrophotometer!
One of my favorite words to share with people when talking about horticulture lighting is gonio-spectro-photometer. It sounds like some out-of-this-world tech gadget that 99.9% of us have never heard of before. Often referred to as simply a “gonio,” this machine measures the amount and pattern of light being produced by a lighting fixture (lamp […]
An LED Identity Crisis: 600 watt vs. 1000 watt LED
How is it possible for products to have a “600w vs. 1,000w” identity crisis? Isn’t the spec going to lay it all out? If we look to mass market, inexpensive and mostly foreign-made lights it is almost impossible to take their stated specifications and marketing claims at face value. One claim we see quite often […]
What Can A Garden Hose Teach Me About Lighting For Plants?
If your reading this, it’s probably because of all the confusing advice that has been dispensed on how to measure energy emitted from a light and how it affects your plants. We can’t blame you and promise to try to keep the follow explanation simple and straightforward. One of our favorite ways to think about […]
Optically Focused Smart LED Grow Light – Part 2
Last week we launched this two-part series on the importance of optically focused LED grow light. If you haven’t seen it, we recommend checking it out Optically Focused Smart LED Grow Light – Part 1. This week, Brent Perkins, President and COO, shares his knowledge and vision behind the technology which will give you the best […]
How Important is LED Chip Size?
One questions that we continually hear is what size chips do you use? For the record, in our Dragon XL products we use a combination of 7 watt white and 5 watt red LEDs manufactured by Cree and Luminous Devices, respectively. Our Dragon LP utilizes 1.4 watt white LED’s manufactured by Lumileds. I am sure our engineers are freaking out […]
Optically Focused Smart LED Grow Lights – Part 1
There’s a big debate in the grow community about Smart LED grow lights and if they are as effective as some claim. The real truth here remains elusive but LEDs lights are finally starting to shed their negative reputation of not being able to flower cannabis. As we move into the next era of grow […]
LEDs Don’t Work
We dive deep into the myth of LED grow lights, and what it takes to make LED lights actually work. With so many applications from commercial cannabis and hemp growers to home growers, containers, tents, greenhouses…you name it. The future of LED grow lights is here.
Optics Matter
Scynce utilizes secondary optics that are designed to focus the light energy, similar to how glasses help some of us see better. There is no other technology that can focus light from an LED to guarantee an even intensity across the grow surface. Which is why we got them patented. Optically focused LEDs offer: Zero […]
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