We are gonna transfer over we’re gonna talk to our boy, Craig Adams, here from California lighting systems, Craig you have got quite a impressive system here and and precisely what give us a breakdown? What’s what how did you get started in the industry? And what is your? What is your? What’s the true agenda of yours? Effectively, we began growing seriously about eight years back. The wife of mine convinced me to set up a grow operation in the yard that has grown and grown and it’s largely a nursery business. We’ve mothers, clones are sold by us, for this reason we deal with growers all over Southern California and at that time it had been all about tinkering with equipment and we tried metal halide, HPS was tried by us, we tried fluorescent t5 fluorescent and our big issue was huge heat bulbs which burned Out when annually and enormous electricity bills – and we kept maxing out on our the breakers of ours, for this reason the backgrounds kind of mine of in electronics all right away, but whether I tried using several of the LEDs in those days from China. They were way overpriced and they certainly did not didn’t grow marijuana that well so that that is when we first began. I hooked up with someone that was an engineer wanting to undertake the same thing as well as we started out California light works eight years back, really all grounded on LEDs and that’s and that is you have an internet site in California and California. What light works? Calm right. So this has evolved quite a bit during the last eight years. I suggest the. I could claim that HPS really really performs pretty well and it is kind of the conventional light for bloom. You understand florescent works. Effectively, it’s it is! What folks use for veg and for plants that are tiny, though they both have those disadvantages – a lot of heat, a large amount of electrical energy bulbs to convert they’re, not very ecological. Therefore so the number of wants? Does green living guide? however, the splendor the beauty about LEDs is, you can use about 50 % of the electricity and obtain exactly the same light output as any of those other solutions. The you know, the LEDs can be considerably more effective as much as the level of electrical energy to spend that amount of lighting, after which you are able to. This actually goes from red to pink. Well, that’s the other point about all these various bulb technologies. It is actually one color spectrum and that is kind of what it’s. So individuals were using like metal or fluorescent halide for beds, as it’s a good deal bluer, you get a lot better veg growth, next they would change over and they’d go into another room or perhaps switch the light fixtures to metal halide. It is a good deal more white and red is actually great in bloom. That’s the place you buy the yield of yours, hence the problem is wasn’t actually possible that just one light that could do every one of those jobs. Therefore the beauty of LEDs. You can choose precisely the spectrum, get everything you. Whatever mix that best suits the plant, this’s a fresh light that it really combines everything we discovered during the last eight years. This is fully programmable, hence I can select you understand it’s heavy and blue it is heavy in red. Then you have a natural right in the middle and I can select almost anything in between the place, if you are in bed you would work with a lot richer, blue and tone, the white down red tends to make your plants stretch for much taller where most folks in beds. They would like a good bushy plant with limited spacing in the nodes, quite contrary in pink, a great deal of red you prefer, you will do not wish many pink, for this reason LEDs provides you with the ideal blend of all worlds, and with this I can actually Program more than days months as well as across the whole season, the number of hours per day that could change after a while, I’m able to gradually transition over to blossom from veg. I could have the spectrum change along those times start like in heavy blue, but essentially work over to bloom switch over to white. You are able to also mimic sunrise sunset, so it’s a more natural transition change for the plants. I want to ask you this, thus your systems today basically can certainly upgrade traditional lighting systems absolutely completely and that it won’t cut the costs of yours in in half. You realize in the past, LEDs were really expensive and not able to get power which is enough get good yield or perhaps unless you paid or an extravagant amount per fixture like every anything electrical gadgets, it gets stronger. It gets cheaper every six months therefore they’ll come today when LEDs is going on the go to light instead of fluorescent or perhaps HBS and we’re essentially there immediately and but the fixture cost continues to cut down each year. So it’s phenomenal the light output as well as the price. Today, particularly when you are able to program it, you won’t ever have much more light. You could dial in just the right spectrum. You can program the whole thing, therefore you never have to manually. So sorry mercy. Are you getting? Let us say some people green growers these days are claiming to get 2 plus pounds a light right. Are you able to see in that identical comparison, a similar yield? We got growers doing 8 pounds of light, which, of course, you go yeah right, yeah right Kurt! That is in two, but that’s in a greenhouse, generally, but using LEDs for a supplemental light. Indoor indoor people are averaging 2 pounds of light. I wish to ask you this this system below together with the 2 fans. Would that be looked at one or 2 lights? Well, this is just what this’s one light this’s a bat unit might produce. Likely, this is this draws 400 watts right, it will make at the same amount associated with a 600 watt, HBS basically. We build a 600 watt version that will replace one to one: a thousand watt HBS extremely based on that, similar to the equivalent of an a 1000. What people are averaging aproximatelly 2 pounds of light? Got you effectively? Oh yeah, with fifty % less cause exactly the heat as well as other you are, not spending the cash on air conditioning today I mean just the price tag, and lighting on it’s own is fifty %. Add the heating and all the other elements that are associated with those hot lights, I’m never having a changeable and don’t handy and that is a lifetime light there. You could blue for 20 years without without stopping that’s somewhat nice, but provide you with an example. When I went when it the nursery business of mine, we’d about fifty eight light T fives. All of those are truly hot they’re about 450 Watts. I manage to exchange those out one to one that has a an Black Dog Led that pulls two 100 two 100 watts. So it’s half less than half I just we just grow 24 hours a day. We do not we do not. We never turn the lights off and I motel six. Alright, it is constantly on we have been managing those lights for six years now, non-stop 24 hours one day, I’ve never changed a bowl, though I have never had to touch them. So it’s a huge advance, with no yeah! It is simply the science, I suggest we are moving into a Star Trek planet as far as growing. And so permit me to ask you this. I kind of off the subject, but exactly where does the passion of yours lies? Is it in growing or might it be in engineering? It really is both the the the thing that actually excites me is being ready to simulate nature, and to do that, you have to know how nature you would like to play. I love reading God’s mind: okay, that’s what God’s doing and light it is actually fascinating. The relationship between light and plants – it is it’s based on evolution. It’S based on particular species of plants, the native habitat of theirs, that’s the way they use light depending on where they evolved. A extremely fascinating point. You realize a lot of folks think Oh, a good grow light, the more appears as the Sun, the better results you’re gonna get. however, the trouble is that is not true. We can do studies plants, do not utilize anything in the yellow and green and that’s the main middle aisle of the sunshine of photosynthesizing they’re. Using all of the photosynthesis happen in the blues and the red almost no is occurring in the middle, for this reason an HPS light. It’S got a lot of right. It’S got a lot of reds that quite a few yellow and green received a considerable amount y’all in natural. so about half of that light is you the place does not even waste it, however, it has got enough red, so you get excellent yield with this. I can dial it exactly the amount of white I want. I may possibly edit out all the greens yellows and to me it for me. It’s an interesting question. Well, why do not plants use the center spectrum of the light it’s the most readily available? Effectively, why don’t they often use that? And it is interesting because for a billion years you only have bacteria, it is growing in the beach and that’s where photosynthesis evolved. They photosynthesize the yellow and green light, although they blocked all that light from anything lower in the ocean and much more complex plants evolved a few for lower. The only thing that got through was blue and red vector. Those are the plants that eventually moved on to land evolved late and never regained the ability to photosynthesize of all those spectrums. So it’s roasting, so an LED is the only technology we will when you understand that I might play God a little bit and I can capitalize on the perfect development finest yield with the very least electrical energy. The ecological remedy, no bulbs to change and you’d bulbs are they are brimming with methane in the bite yeah. Thus for us this’s this’s the best solution plus leaf? In fact, that is protocol dial in panels. That’s awesome. This is going to control up to a thousand lights. So it’s so actually created for commercial operations without completely interrupting you. I’ve been to the unit of yours, and I was very pleased with the products & and in the projects that you’re focusing on I mean I was blown away with the quality also and I’ve chosen a number of individuals to you due to the products of yours are better. Craig also carries a feature-packed cloning nursery. It is named the garden center in Southern California here and and in case you actually need clones, I don’t know if they are allowed to reach you that California, no the nursery dot us the nursery dot us and next your Lighting’s company is California. Light works, calm! Sure, Craig. Are you ready to accept um? Are you accessible to do you work with people? Wouldn’t you consult to give somebody advice if the name is called by them they need absolutely, we offer complete consultant how to set up a grow room. Just how many lights you have to discuss what capacity we’ve to have guidance about nutrients and grow room set up, because nutrient read through is a tad different under LEDs than ordinary tree and some other lights. But we’ve full service, is all offered with the deal. And so awesome, what would you say Craig is: is your end all mission statement in this in this? Where are you in terms of the overall agenda of yours? What would you wish to see take place in this world and how do you want to effect that the outcome? Well, naturally, we want LED technology to change these other really inefficient technologies. I’d say in general, nevertheless, I think long term, as things get legitimate and folks can develop out in the open. Green house stands out as the way to go because you can use so much Sun as you can. Outdoor has limitations, really energy, indoor, intensive and green greenhouse. You are able to get the very best of both worlds, although you still need a health supplement. You use the Sun pretty much as possible. You have to add to with artificial lighting as well. Leds are great for that. So I believe a big grow operation by using green house with supplemental LEDs which can increase and down with a Sun, that is amazing! What is the cost of a device this way, these sell for approximately? It’S brand new we’re launching this ownership at right after 4th of July weekend. These are a novice system. There there will be aproximatelly 700 bucks all right, consequently there you’ve it guys. If you can get 100,000 social media opinions, he will give you a free lighting system. Right now there you go get in touch with Craig Adams, you guys this is an impressive. Guy he’s doing amazing things he the wife of his are a terrific couple, and – and thank you much Craig – all right we’re down here. Thank you. Everything else you’d like to add that is good thanks for having guys move
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