OK...so I realized some things yesterday about the lights, controllers and the custom settings that I want to share......
Regarding my last post about how the lights slowly increase brightness and slowly dim depending on the settings you choose.
The recommended VEG and Bloom programs need to be slightly edited on the website.
The recommended 18 hour VEG program is actually 19 hours long and the recommended bloom program is actually 13 hours long. Let me explain...
We will use this chart/graph for example. If you look at this chart you will notice that Hours 1,2,3,22, 23 and 24 are representing the dark period, and by the looks of the chart, that is 6 hours of darkness....This is actually wrong and you would actually get roughly 19 hours of daylight, and 5 hours of darkness. Let me elaborate..
So say that I programed the lights to this schedule (which is what I did for my current grow), One would assume that at hour 4:00, the lights would come on... but this is not the case....
Like in my other post I mentioned that the lights don't increase/decrease intensity by the hour, but rather they increase/decrease slowly from one hour to the next.
So when looking at the chart above, the lights actually would come on between hour 3 and hour 4, and would start at 3:00 at 0%,0%,0% and slowly work their way to the 4:00 settings of 20%,35%,15%. (Grow, VEG, Bloom).
So in actuality, based on this 18 hour schedule, the lights actually would come on for around 18-19 hours, somewhere in the middle.
For veg this won't be a big deal, but for flowering, It definitely could effect the plants. Since these plants typically require 12 hours or more of darkness to flower, by using the suggested custom BLOOM schedule, the plants would only receive 11 hours of darkness and this may cause certain strains to stay in veg or delay flowering.
My recommendation would be to remove 1 hour from the middle of each of the recommended schedules where the intensities are 100% across all 3 channels. This way we would be getting a true 18 hour veg schedule and a true 12 hour flowering schedule.
I am glad that I caught this and hope that everyone takes notice, definitely not a big deal and not a deal breaker by any means. All that would have to be corrected is reducing the the recommended bar charts/graphs (daylight hours by 1 hour) to correct this.
