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nimbulan wrote:
Well the results of that video are basically: Don't use solid blue. They have another video showing white and red/blue being about the same, so why opt for the weird colors?

Well I was going off that old veg growth thing and the lights on the first page of the post the other person was using. The company has a variety of LED's, I was going to get plain white, but i read they are possibly just blue LED's painted with a coating to appear white. Doesn't sound true...but anyways...
These cheap panels (Yescom 225) have the (blue & red) which I think I'll get a 4 pack of, but also a (blue, red, orange, white) LED option. Maybe overkill IDK. By the time I get these lights anyways it will be time to put my sarr's outside, but I have to swap my T5's so I need to order in the next few months regardless, I planned on getting about 8 panels.

SundewWolf wrote:Well I was going off that old veg growth thing and the lights on the first page of the post the other person was using. The company has a variety of LED's, I was going to get plain white, but i read they are possibly just blue LED's painted with a coating to appear white. Doesn't sound true...but anyways...

Yes that's how white LEDs work - it's the same method as fluorescent bulbs. The fluorescent mercury vapor reaction produces UV radiation while LEDs produce blue. The bulb/diode is coated with a phosphor that absorbs that radiation and emits a wider range of visible light. The phosphor coating is why white LEDs appear yellow when they're not powered.