I was sent these links today.
I haven't checked it out yet-made the spectrometer...
Looks cool.
I already made a DIy spectrometer but this one has a program that is supposed to actually tell you what wave lengths between 400nm and 900nm your lights put out on your computer.
The one I have just shows the bands of light.You guess what the percentages are by how thick the bands are.
Only a ballpark guess.
I'll post later when I see if my sugar cube camera or web cam is good enough for this program.
Only thing I don't know about is the removal of the infa red filter...
I don't think my sugar cube camera has one because they say I can use it at night with an infa red light source.
Looks like a cool toy.
http://publiclaborat...er-construction
What also makes this cool,IF it really works is it cuts all the BS type crap going around about cheep leds or led growlights.
What if the gazillion $ growlights actually put out less of the plant usable wave lengths than the cheep knock offs do?
Then it would be only a matter of lumens.
Buying 4 cheep growlights would still be cheeper than 1 overpriced one that doesn't/or might not put out as many of the plant usable wave lengths.
Stuff like this,IF it works , goes a LONG way to give access to what different light sources put out.
Could cut a lot of the advertising claims down to meaningless crap not worth reading OR back up said companies advertising claims...
This thing LOOKS to be cheep enough that anyone could build it and actually know what they bought lighting wise without having to use it first.
A spectrometer and a light meter would let you know everything the average person needs to make a decision whether to return their product within a short time without having to use it first.
I gotta mess with this.It looks like a good toy if it works.If it doesn't,isn't accurate enough,it'll be fun messing with anyway.
I haven't checked it out yet-made the spectrometer...
Looks cool.
I already made a DIy spectrometer but this one has a program that is supposed to actually tell you what wave lengths between 400nm and 900nm your lights put out on your computer.
The one I have just shows the bands of light.You guess what the percentages are by how thick the bands are.
Only a ballpark guess.
I'll post later when I see if my sugar cube camera or web cam is good enough for this program.
Only thing I don't know about is the removal of the infa red filter...
I don't think my sugar cube camera has one because they say I can use it at night with an infa red light source.
Looks like a cool toy.
http://publiclaborat...er-construction
What also makes this cool,IF it really works is it cuts all the BS type crap going around about cheep leds or led growlights.
What if the gazillion $ growlights actually put out less of the plant usable wave lengths than the cheep knock offs do?
Then it would be only a matter of lumens.
Buying 4 cheep growlights would still be cheeper than 1 overpriced one that doesn't/or might not put out as many of the plant usable wave lengths.
Stuff like this,IF it works , goes a LONG way to give access to what different light sources put out.
Could cut a lot of the advertising claims down to meaningless crap not worth reading OR back up said companies advertising claims...
This thing LOOKS to be cheep enough that anyone could build it and actually know what they bought lighting wise without having to use it first.
A spectrometer and a light meter would let you know everything the average person needs to make a decision whether to return their product within a short time without having to use it first.
I gotta mess with this.It looks like a good toy if it works.If it doesn't,isn't accurate enough,it'll be fun messing with anyway.