How to Make LED Grow Lights for Indoor Planting at Home
Article by Lulu Fernandez
LED grow lights, or commonly called Light-Emitting Diode lamps are steadily becoming a favorite alternative among indoor gardeners for their covered plant business. They gained a lot of advantages over their led grow lights non-user competitors such as:
• Lower maintenance expense • Bigger power savings • Longer life span • Better development yield• Use smaller garden plot• Eco-friendly
If you want, you can have LED grow lights for your own and assemble it at cheap cost. Here are 6 easy steps to follow. But before you begin, have these things prepared: ceiling panel, drill and bit, 2 strands of red and blue LED Christmas lights, glue gun, glue stick and a thin rope to be used for mounting.
Instructions:
1) Create 50 holes on your ceiling panel by marking 5 rows with 10 holes each row with a distance of about ¼ inch wide in-between each row. Make sure that there is a 6 inch space about the outer perimeter. Drill holes every 3 1/2 inches.
2) Stick out the lights out of the shell of the panel by poking the lights through the back of the said panel. Ensure that they are tight and well secured. Never pull the lights through the hole, or you may damage the bulbs.
3) Hot glue the cord to the panel with your glue gun. Do it on both sides of each hole.
4) Get the light strands and with each strand, switch the next strand into the end of the first one and skip a hole. Then hot glue the plastic portion of the plug to the panel to hold it. Repeat the same process with the other lights into the holes.
5) Before slinging your mounting rope, punch two holes on both ends of the panel. Then slip the thin rope down through the top and up through the other hole. Make a loop and secure it. Do the same process for the other side.
6) Set up hooks over your seedlings. Hang the ceiling panel from the hooks, switch it on and watch them glow. Yup. That’s all to it.
If you don’t have the time to make your own LED grow lights and have the money to spare, then just buy it in your favorite DIY store. But before you do,it will be best if you make some more research by reading other LED grow lights review and know the best string lights that will fit your needs. One thing for sure, with the savings you will have on your electricity bills plus the low maintenance cost, you will recover your investments on LED grow lights sooner than you think.
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