Horticultural lamps exits in many different shapes and sizes, each lamp type has it's own advantages and disadvantages. We devided the light bulbs we offer into the following categories:
HID lamps
The category HID lamps is devided in the following groups:
LED lamps
Nowadays LED lighting is already much used in greenhouses. LED's are used for multilayer cultivation as well as for assimilation lighting. The big advantage of LED is that they can be constructed in such a way that they only offer your plants the light that they can actually use for photosynthesis.
Fluorescent lamps
A fluorescent lightbulb is a lamp that producess light by exposing a fluorescent layer to ultraviolet rays which are generated by a gas discharge in the lamp. The best known examples are the so-called fluorescent and energy saving lamps. The light output in lumens per watt is 5 to 6 times as high as in a normal light bulb.
Plasma lamps
Plasma lamps have a spectrum similar to the daylight spectrum in the spring. They are often reffered to as being artificial sunlightlamps. Plasma lamps convert only 25% of the energy used to heat, the traditional HID lamps turn up to 75% of the energy used into heat.