Plant Grow Light

A grow light for your poor plants when they lack sun, with all they need (Blue + Red, but also a little bit of UV, IR, green and amber)

Thomas Gonnot

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I got the idea from my wife, that has a lot of plants, and had to bring a lot inside for the winter.
Lot of plants, and not a lot of windows, we ended up investing in plant lights.
I wanted to DIY my own plant light, and proceeding to do some research about what they need (one of the sources being http://www.ledgrowlightshq.co.uk/chlorophyll-plant-pigments/).

I ended up finding a single LED meant for that purpose: the [LZC-00H100-0000 by OSRAM](https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/osram-sylvania-inc/LZC-00H100-0000/1537-1187-1-ND/6619069).
This LED is actually an array of LEDs, 1 UV (400nm), 3 Blue (450mn), 1 Green (525nm), 1 Amber (590nm), 4 Red (665nm), and 1 Far Red (730nm).
The LED itself d

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Grow Light Assembly.f3d Fusion 360 assembly of the light with 3D printed shade and holder fusion - 8.37 MB - 09/26/2020 at 22:53		Download
GrowLightPCB.zip Gerber for the LED aluminum PCB x-zip-compressed - 14.06 kB - 12/03/2019 at 03:13		Download
LED power supply for Grow Light project.PDF Schematic for the power converter Adobe Portable Document Format - 213.01 kB - 12/03/2019 at 03:12		Preview

GrowLightPowerPCB.zip Gerber for the power converter PCB x-zip-compressed - 22.92 kB - 12/03/2019 at 03:11		Download