Equipment validation: LED lighting edition

When designing or upgrading your grow facility, decisions around equipment specifications, selection, and integration are integral to helping ensure your facility is efficient and profitable post start-up. Improperly sized or specified equipment can have lasting implications on facility performance and lead to compromised yields, reduced end-product quality, and other unintended consequences. Often, growers come to us with a pre-selected brand of lights/fertigation/benching/etc. that they want to utilize.

While it's valuable for operators to gain familiarity with different systems and vendors, oftentimes these cultivators haven't considered how all these systems will interact and how the performance of one equipment category bears implications for other systems. Perhaps the most energy intensive system in your facility are the lights—not only do they represent significant CapEx investment, but they also make up a significant portion of OpEX costs. Lighting technology also plays an extremely important role in determining yield, cycle time, and secondary metabolite profile - which is directly tied to revenue.

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Courtesy of AgriTech Tomorrow

Source: AgriTech Tomorrow