Lighting new GN Units

[krug]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Pop! That (as you stated), is `buyers prerogotive`. I guess it all depends on how much `expendable income` is available to the individual. Me, I like my `Kettles`(watches). I would spend £6-10 large(thousand), if I had it!lol, on a Panerai (I wouldn`t on a Rolex or Breitling, cos one is `common` and the latter too `Flash` and gaudy(imho)...But I fully understand someone nipping over t`Aisa and purchasing a grade A snide, for £60-100. They both do the same (basic) job. But the snide is still a snide, it also won`t do the job as well as the Original! I get your pov but, come on man...GN haven`t let anyone down yet buddy! I don`t battery farm (sorry, grow under lights ), so I have no idea on the differences really. All I know is that my main man Coops swears by GN (or did!) and if I could buy a LED, that`s where I`d start..."My 2 cents"(and that really is all I can spend on a pov, atm!)lol :Sharing One:

P.S. My comment on growing under lights was a funny...sorry for any offense caused(it`s not meant!)

 

[Grey Bear]

the laws of physics will tell you that smaller is smaller, not equal to anything. a smaller unit means a smaller footprint, etc.

That may have seemed true before microprocessors were invented.
I remember when a computer cost hundreds of thousands, took up warehouse sized spaces with mainframes, and had a fraction of the memory the first DOS personal computers had.

 

[minime]

Lol are we still debating whether its worth the price? Is there any more information about these yet? Sounds fairly promising to me if it can perform very well I may well be interested

 

[GrowNorthern]

Hi AFN,

Its great to see so much excitement about our new units. Just a quick comment to clear up some of the conflicting views on this thread. GN has made no public announcement about the new units other than that we will be releasing one. People who have talked to us direct we have given a small bit information about the units but much has been kept private and will be kept private until we are ready to deploy the new units in order to protect our design concepts. I understand the confusion if you have been on our site and think we are releasing a new UK built Modular series light but that's not the case. This new unit is the first and flag ship of a new series all together and we will not be working with any China or Taiwan R&D based led or driver manufacturing companies (that is literally the fundamental idea behind building a new series of lights). What I will say to those looking at the current market of Chinese built lights and comparing the price and power consumption of the new GN unit, there is nothing available from China that will yield results in the same ball park when considering efficiency, reliability and application adaptation.


We have and always will strive to keep the BOM vs mark up of the whole unit very competitive which is a big concern when cutting ties with sourcing materials and manufacturing in Asia as we have just done (this is why we no longer sell the modular series). We are using a completely unique business model and assembly process to any of the Chinese and US companies producing LED lights. As a 3 man team (total) we will be producing 200 units per week in the UK providing high quality integration though low over heads per unit even compared to factories in Asia. From GN the units are sold to the customer with out any of the China shipping and factory costs added on the BOM mark up.
None of our components come from companies that aren't among the most respected and innovative in their field for research and design such as Philips Lighting and Philips Lumileds. The new unit has optical, control, thermal, and electrical design features that we have not disclosed and are not used in any existing LED grow light.


Please be patient and positive. We can all discuss the details at length when they are ready to be released which will be finalized later this week. Thankyou to everyone who has supported GN thus far and know that we will do our bit to progress this industry to the next level of quality and performance.

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

ohh hello
and straight from the horses mouth.
thanks for the info.

 

[Larky.Derry]

i hope that answers the questions floating around. well done Grow Northern, great service as always

 

[Villain]

Cheers GN, looking forward to the reveal

 

[Bunny]

"The new unit has optical, control, thermal, and electrical design features that we have not disclosed and are not used in any existing LED grow light."


Now I'm really excited and it sounds to me the price tag is more than fair for the amount of work that's been put in. Sounds truly ground breaking !

 

[minime]

God I hate being impatient lol

 

[AndyBotwin]

I guess that ends any discussion about GNs coming out of the same factory as every other LED. I doubt I'll be able to buy one of these soon, but I'll enjoy seeing all the trees that are grown with it. "Munch..munch..munch