SolarOasis LED Grow Light Advantages

LED Technology Has Obvious Advantages

The original SolarOasis Ruby Grow Light offers many advantages to the indoor plant enthusiast. With its energy savings, lower operating costs, small size, and light weight, SolarOasis Ruby Grow Lights bring a new versatility to plant growing!

• Lower Operating Costs
• Greater Safety
• Friendly to Your Plants and Home
• Greater Versatility Lets You Be Creative

Lower Operating Costs - The Ruby Grow Light can save you money!

• Less Energy Use

  Conventional grow lights consume between 100 watts and 1,000 watts of power to operate. Each SolarOasis Ruby Gro-Bar uses less than 6 watts of power. This energy savings becomes more and more important as energy costs continue to rise. On average, SolarOasis grow lights use 33 times less energy than comparable metallic vapor lights (based on 3 Ruby Gro-Bars per 400 watt MH light). Three SolarOasis Ruby Gro-Bars, used 16-hours per day, at $0.10 per KilowattHour, will cost about $21 per year to operate.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that every Kilowatt of energy produces 1.5 lbs of carbon dioxide (CO₂). The EPA estimates that for every 7,300 lbs of CO₂ prevented is equivalent to planting one acre of trees. Based on these EPA estimates, each 400 watt metallic vapor light replaced by SolarOasis Ruby Grow Lights will yield a savings in energy-produced CO₂ equivalent to planting nearly one-half acre of trees per year.

• Longer Bulb Life

  Based on data published by the manufacturers of components used in SolarOasis products, the expected SolarOasis bulb life is 20,000-100,000 hours. This is ten to fifty times longer than typical glass grow light bulb life expectations. Replacing glass bulbs every year adds a lot to the expense of a growing system. With the SolarOasis Ruby Grow Light you won't be changing expensive bulbs every year.

• No Ballast

  Fluorescent tubes and metallic vapor lamps all need a ballast to operate, and ballasts eventually burn out and must be replaced. The Ruby Grow Light doesn't need a ballast, eliminating this recurring cost from your growing system.

• No Reflector

  Conventional glass envelope grow lights emit light in all directions. In order to use as much of this light for plant growth as possible, these lights are generally fitted with bulky, unattractive reflectors to direct light back toward the plants. With LEDs the reflectors are build right into the LEDs themselves, so no secondary reflector is needed. Almost all of the light generated by the LEDs in the SolarOasis Ruby Grow Light is directed straight at your plants.

• Less Waste Heat

  Conventional grow lights are very hot, running from several hundred degrees to over 1400°F at the bulb's surface. This excess radiated heat output adds to the cost to cool your home or office. SolarOasis grow lights are merely warm to the touch, even after operating for hours, greatly reducing your supplemental cooling costs.

• Targeted Light Output

  Unlike "broad spectrum" plant grow lights, which produce a lot of light plants can't use efficiently, SolarOasis Ruby Grow Lights only deliver the colors of light used by plants for efficient and healthy growth. By leaving out light plants don't need, SolarOasis lights provide still more energy savings over conventional plant grow lights.

Greater Safety - SolarOasis Ruby Grow Lights are safer to use in your home or office!

• Lower Voltage

  Unlike conventional grow lights, which operate on 120 volts at the bulb, SolarOasis Ruby Grow Lights run typically on less than 20 volts at the bulb. This fact greatly reduces risk or fire or injury, especially in wet growing environments.

• Lower Burn and Fire Risk

  The high heat generated by a typical metal halide or high pressure sodium lamp is more than enough to ignite nearby combustible objects such as paper or cloth. Their reflectors often get very hot as well and can cause severe burns if they are accidentally touched. SolarOasis LED-based grow lights operate at just a few degrees above room temperature. Just slightly warm to the touch while running, SolarOasis Ruby Grow Lights are safer to use around children and pets.

• Lightweight

  SolarOasis Ruby Grow Lights have no bulky reflector or heavy ballast, and weigh only a few ounces. The ballast of a standard metallic vapor lamp, on the other hand, can weigh up to fifty pounds, requiring special consideration when fitted to a reflector and hung from a ceiling. SolarOasis grow lights are easy to place around your valuable plants, without the risk of heavy objects falling from your ceiling!

• Less Fragile

  The glass bulbs of other grow lights are very fragile. The Ruby Grow Light has no glass parts, and is much harder to break.

• Less Environmental Hazard

  Metallic vapor and fluorescent lamps all contain mercury, a heavy metal identified by the U.S. Government as hazardous to the environment and our landfills. SolarOasis Ruby Grow Lights contain no mercury.

Friendly To Your Plants and Home

• No "White Light" Glare

  Other plant grow lights use technologies generally used to light rooms and buildings, which makes them very bright to the human eye. The SolarOasis Ruby Grow Light delivers light that is very bright to plants, but relatively dim to people. Your plants get what they need without the "white light" glare you don't want, making our grow lights welcome in your kitchen and living room, instead of your basement.

• Plants Stay Cooler

  There are two types of plants, those whose chemistry works better in hot weather, like corn, and those who like it cooler, like most plants you'd choose to grow indoors. Most cooler growing plants shut down when it gets too hot to avoid losing more water than they can bring up from their roots. The SolarOasis Ruby Grow Light gives your plants all the light they need, without the heat of conventional grow lights, letting them grow quickly at room temperature.

• Cuttings Root More Easily

  The leaves of plant cuttings are often snipped in half to reduce water loss until new roots are formed. For cuttings of many types of plants, this isn't necessary when using the Ruby Grow Light. Since your cuttings aren't wilting under the heat of the sun or conventional grow lights they can keep their leaves to speed new root growth.

• Lower Chance of Heat Induced Root Damage

  Plant roots don't like to be hot, and potted plants left in direct sun are prone to root damage where sunlight heats the surface of the pot. The same damage can occur in closed rooms with hot, conventional grow lights and inadequate ventilation. The SolarOasis Ruby Grow Light operates at such a low temperature that incidental root damage is unlikely.

• Less Watering

  Using the SolarOasis Ruby Grow Light, your plants will transpire less, letting you extend the time time between watering cycles. If you need to leave your plants unattended for a few days, they'll have a better chance of surviving if their grow lights aren't drying them out.

• Good News for Terrariums and Other Plants Grown "Under Glass"

  Plants with high humidity requirements, like orchids, African Violets, ferns, and many carnivorous plants, are commonly grown in terrariums or Wardian Cases. Unfortunately, the combination of high humidity with the heat from most light sources, either the sun or conventional grow lights, causes a great deal of condensation on the inner surface of the glass, obscuring your view of the plants inside. By using Ruby Grow Lights to light your terrariums, no heat is added, over 85% of the light from the Ruby Grow Light passes through to your plants, and the glass stays mostly clear of condensation. Some seedlings with very high humidity requirements are grown with glass covers over their pots for a period of time. Getting enough light to these plants is a challenge, but not if you use the Ruby Grow Light. The Ruby Grow Light emits so little heat, it can be placed directly on top of the glass cover, if desired.

• Enjoy Delicate Blooms Longer

  Flowers are very delicate, as can be seen from the spotting and edge burning they get outdoors. Richly colored rose petals fade quickly under the summer sun. This is not true when flowering plants bloom indoors under the SolarOasis Ruby Grow Light. Miniature roses have been grown with SolarOasis Ruby Grow Lights with blooms that were picture perfect and unblemished, with some varieties having flowers that lasted for months without change.

Greater Versatility Lets You Be Creative

• Completely Directional

  Most grow lights can only be mounted one way - suspended from the ceiling and pointing toward the floor. And even if they can be hung different ways, their bulky reflectors make this a lot more difficult than you might like. Small and light weight, the SolarOasis Ruby Grow Light can be positioned any way you like. And because it produces very little heat it can be mounted within the foliage of large plants, ensuring all parts of your plants get the maximum light they need.

• Use Only As Many Lights As You Need

  With more cumbersome grow lights, you often have to bring your plant to wherever you are able to mount the light. Wouldn't it be better to put your plant where you want it...on a table, on a shelf, on a windowsill...and bring the light to the plant? The small size and lightweight of the SolarOasis Ruby Grow Light let’s you bring the light to your plants. If your plant has a cascading form, arrange lights to shine on the plant the way it naturally grows. There's no need to light up half of your living room just to try to grow a few prized plants indoors.

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