Comments on: Solar Green Houses

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:40:04 +0000

I work for an aluminum anodizer and we make solar reflectors. We have a patent pending reflector that can reflect 90 to 95% total wavelength reflectance of solar light and is also extremely weather resistant. You can buy them in quantity and cut them (or we can) and shape them anyway you want to increase efficiency of your light source. I am interested and can also develop specifically to your needs. Let me know.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:52:16 +0000

I have been working on a number of aspects for this project. Currently I am testing a LED driver (needed to ensure the LED’s don’t self destruct) for a 48 volt battery system. I have a few issues to work out, mainly heat dissipation of the driver IC, and design of a better circuit board, perhaps and integrated MCPCB (metal core printed circuit board) that contains both the LEDs and the driver circuit. That will make building a grow light modular. I am also working on a dimmer section. Stay tuned, as this project gets further along, I’ll post and update.

By: Soluna_668

Soluna_668 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:31:31 +0000

I am very interested in your LED Grow Light project and have been thinking of both usage and market ideas for these larger panels. I am also interested in adding either switches or potentiometers to vary the amount of red light emitted. What do you think about that?