I was reading Tdub's glog, and I noticed the phone being used as a PAR meter by way of the Photone app.
Been wanting to buy a meter for a while, but $500-$600 for a good quality meter was a bit much.
So, I installed it on my iPhone, and, after a little experimentation, decided to buy the Lifetime Pro license to unlock all the features for $80.
Unfortunately, it has not been calibrated for my FS+UV lamps, or my actinic lamps, but seems to work for the fluorescent and LED lamps.
As I am trying to simulate natural daylight, I chose the Daylight fluorescent setting.
My results with all twelve lamps burning at 14 inches away and centered, after allowing a 10 minute warmup:
531 PPFD
30.6 DLI @ 16 hour period.
34000 lux
10300 CCT. The actinic lamps really increase this from ~6400 CCT with the other lamps only.
Anyone else tried this app for their lighting? Would like to see some comparisons between various, e.g. LED, Fluorescent, etc, lighting types.
Been wanting to buy a meter for a while, but $500-$600 for a good quality meter was a bit much.
So, I installed it on my iPhone, and, after a little experimentation, decided to buy the Lifetime Pro license to unlock all the features for $80.
Unfortunately, it has not been calibrated for my FS+UV lamps, or my actinic lamps, but seems to work for the fluorescent and LED lamps.
As I am trying to simulate natural daylight, I chose the Daylight fluorescent setting.
My results with all twelve lamps burning at 14 inches away and centered, after allowing a 10 minute warmup:
531 PPFD
30.6 DLI @ 16 hour period.
34000 lux
10300 CCT. The actinic lamps really increase this from ~6400 CCT with the other lamps only.
Anyone else tried this app for their lighting? Would like to see some comparisons between various, e.g. LED, Fluorescent, etc, lighting types.