What do you think of the Advanced Platinum LED Grow Lights?

HOW DOES A GROW LIGHT WORK?
A grow light is an artificial light that uses a specific light spectrum to support healthy plant growth and production through spectral light wavelengths. Plants require light in order to survive, and this is especially true for indoor plants as windows may not emit enough light for your plant to be healthy. Grow lights can mimic the light spectrum found within sunlight that helps plants produce photosynthesis, a chemical process in which light energy is converted into food the plant can use to grow and produce. Different colored wavelengths found within the light spectrum provide differing temperatures utilized by the plant for this process.

Plants utilize both the warmer blue, and cooler red wavelengths during different stages of plant growth. Seedlings and early growth usually prefer the warmer blue to put out healthy shoots and height, whereas late growth and production best utilize the cooler reds and oranges.

Advanced Platinum LED Grow Lights 

The Platinum LED P-series is an advanced light system that incorporates 6 different choices of lights for your personal grow needs. Toted by the company as the most powerful grow lights available, all while saving you in energy output- making them more efficient than comparable products. These lights provide a optimal blend of 12 different bands of light found within the light spectrum to give a more complete coverage for plant to utilize during all stages of growth. Each panel is also equipped with secondary focusing lenses to penetrate deep within the plant canopy to ensure you entire plant is receiving the light it needs for maximum production. They all come with complete 5 year warranty that covers all manufacturers defects as well; this also includes free shipping both ways. A 90 day money back guarantee also provides peace of mind surrounding your investment.

Grow Light Spectrum

The Platinum LED series offers a variety of LED grow light that combine to deliver a full spectrum of light. This fact goes for all options within the Advanced Platinum LED series. Using a light spectrum and comparing the Advanced Platinum LED lights with others, the Advanced Platinum LEDs delivers all the colors that plants benefit from most.

The goal with a grow light spectrum is to deliver the wavelengths appropriate for chlorophyll absorption. LED lights usually over a variety of colors of light. However, you specifically need UV, infrared, blue and white light for proper growth.

If you compare the Advanced Platinum LED series to cheaper alternatives, there are more red and blue lights present in the Advanced Platinum LEDs. Red and blue lights help throughout the budding process for bigger yield and more potent product.

TheAdvanced Platinum LED series has a great spectrum for lights. The ultra-violet diodes help plants throughout the vegetative stages and the infrared assists in sprouting. What this offers for growers is saving money because you have one light system that’s good for all growth stages.

Because you configure the spectrum within the Advanced Platinum LED series, you can eliminate the need to rotate between different lights. This feature is available on the Advanced Platinum LED300, 450, 600, and XML 350. The only difference in the spectrum is that the variation of size is proportionate to the number of LEDs.

Actual Wattage and HID Equivalent

The table below shows the actual wattage and the HID equivalent wattage for each fixture in the Advanced Platinum Series:
The actual wattage figures are averages. Because these lights have separate veg and bloom modes, the actual power draw will vary, depending on the mode. In veg, the light will use less power than in bloom, because your plants do not need the same intensity during vegging.
In terms of wattage for money spent, this line of lights is on par with some of the most expensive LED fixtures on the market. There are not many lights that deliver this kind of power for such a relatively low price and the ones that do, generally have quality issues, because the manufacturers cut corners elsewhere.

PAR Values and Coverage Area

Like many other manufacturers, Platinum LED doesn’t provide any PAR charts. But each light has a single PAR value associated based on the various distances between the light and plant. PAR and coverage area are so closely related because the PAR value is the intensity and power of the light from its centermost point, while the coverage is how far that light reasonably extends outward.

Although PAR values don’t tell you much about the intensity outside the center, Platinum LED claims to have a consistently high PAR per watt. You can use this value with the coverage area and guess how much of that PAR extends outward.

It is disappointing that Platinum LED doesn’t provide PAR maps, but that it’s not uncommon, so we’re not surprised. The 300, 450, 600, XML 350 all have different values and light coverage of their size differences and the variation in the number of LEDs.

The Advanced Platinum LED 300 series offers a vegetative coverage of 4.5’ by 3.8’ and a bloom coverage of 3’ by 2’ with a PAR value of 1050. The XML 350 offers more intensity but not more coverage area. There isn’t an exceptionally large difference between the two, other than price.

The Advanced Platinum LED 450 series provides a vegetative coverage of 4.5’ by 4’ and a bloom coverage of 3’ by 2.5’ with a PAR value of 1385. The Advanced Platinum LED 600 provides 6’ by 3.75’ vegetative coverage and 5’ by 2’ bloom coverage with a PAR of 1535.

When it comes to PAR and coverage, Advanced Platinum LED is a top contender among even the best of brands. The best might seem like it’s theAdvanced Platinum LED 600 but when you’re looking at PAR value compared to coverage, your best bet is the Advanced Platinum LED 450.

Heat Output

One huge advantage of using 3 watt chips is that they do not emit much heat. Platinum LED don’t provide numbers for the heat output (few manufacturers do), but all the P Series lights emit about the same amount of heat as their competition, which is, of course, far less heat than an equivalent HID bulb.

What this means for you is that you won’t need to run air conditioning units to deal with the heat from your lighting. It’s enough to just keep air flowing through your grow room.

Operation

These lights are incredibly simple to operate. You just need to hang them (hangers included), plug them in and turn them on. There are two power switches: one for veg and one for bloom. Simply flip the veg switch for vegging and both switches for bloom. And that’s it.

I run my lights off 240 volts and Platinum LED lights automatically detect all international voltages. There’s no need to flip any switches; simply plug the appropriate power cord into the fixture (all international power cords are available) and turn on the power switch(es).

Analysis of LEDs They Use

Platinum Series LED Lights use 3w high output LEDs from makers such as US made CREE, Bridgelux and Epistar. Which, according to them, further ensures the brightest and, most complete spectrum possible. They’re also coupled with top quality LED drivers set at a static 650mA output, for stability, for a guaranteed lifespan around the 50,000 hour range.

Their grow lights utilize LEDs that provide either 12 or 14 spectrum bands in order to achieve maximum photosynthesis and yields. In addition, each one of their diodes is fully Zener protected to help guard against unwanted line surges.

Here’s a bit more info on their specs:
Lenses

They use propietary 90 degree secondary focusing lenses on all of their grow lights in order to help collect and focus the light deep within the plant canopy. This helps to maximize the light energy that is transferred to the leaf surface.
Drivers

They make sure your grow lights are protected by utilizing auto-switching 110v/220v LED drivers to deliver maximum output with maximum efficacy. Their drivers are also fully adaptable to any global voltage input – huge if you’re an international grower.
Warranty

Platinum LED Grow lights all come with a 5 Year Warranty and 90 day satisfaction guarantee, even if they’re purchased through Amazon, which is pretty huge if you ask me. Compared to some other LED companies I’ve reviewed, this is one of the stronger warranty structures that I’ve seen in the space. If you want to read their entire warranty policy in detail
Product Line

Platinum LED offer many types of lights within their 4 product series. From their Rack Series starting at $1499.00 & being their top of the line offering, followed by their XML Series and Greenhouse Series, featuring a more mainstream offer, and finally offering P-Series as a low cost option. Here’s a more detailed description of each:
P-Series:
Priced from $229 up to $1299
These are Platinum LED’s most affordable and simple option. Featuring a mixture of 12 band Epistar and Bridgelux 3w Diodes, Spectrum mixing, Veg & Flower & Mixed setting, Active cooling and adaptable power settings, they come ready to rock any small space.