Deep Dish “greenhouse style” reflectors were NOT designed for your grow room. They were created as high-placement solar supplementation devices for greenhouse growers. Find out why this matters.

Grow lamps produce a lot of light, and a lot of heat. While indoor gardeners are always hungry for more efficient ways of producing the all-important photons to drive photosynthesis, heat is like the uninvited and troublesome guest that snuck into the backseat. Heat rears its ugly head in three primary ways in your indoor garden:

  1. Conduction
    This is heat caused by physical contact between one material and another. Think of a warm nutrient solution being sucked up into your plant and heating the cells it comes into contact with, or a warm pot under the glare of your grow lights heating up the growing media inside it. Conduction heat spreads physically from one material to another, like a chain.
  2. Convection
    This is heat carried in the air. A hot material heats up the air around it and this air comes into contact with other materials. A “thermal transfer” takes place with the air acting as a sort of transporter. Think of the air surrounding your grow lamp and reflector, heating up, and then being moved around the room with your oscillating fans, and then coming into contact with the epidermis of your plants or pots or growing media.
  3. Radiation
    This is heat that can travel through a vacuum (g. solar rays traveling through space) as waves—similar to light, but at lower frequencies (760 nm to 1mm). We call this type of heat infrared. Infrared radiation does one or more of three things when it hits a material (such as a wall, leaf, reflector, soil, water, anything!) — it can pass through it (transmission), bounce off it (reflection) or heat it up (absorption).Materials which absorb infrared then re-emit it, typically at a lower wavelength. So if your reflector becomes hot during operation it then acts as an IR-sync and re-emits mid to far range infrared. Where? Right down at your plants!

Adjust-A-Wings double parabolic open reflectors run much cooler (< 90⁰C) than deep dish-shaped greenhouse style reflectors (> 200⁰C) and produce an even, uniform spread of intense light across the canopy.

There are many more advantages too. The reflectors can be safely positioned much closer to plants, meaning growers can enjoy much higher efficiency when it comes to directing those precious photons to plants and not losing them to walls or surrounding floors. Closer placement also means more intense, angular light to penetrate plant canopies beyond the first tier of flower sites.

Also, unlike greenhouse style reflectors which degrade by 3-5% in reflectance each year, Adjust-A-Wings will perform excellently for 3-5 years without any significant degradation! And because they run much cooler, lamps last longer with higher lumen maintenance (we recommend lamp replacements every 18 months whereas other manufacturers recommend 12 months) and there is massively reduced infrared re-emittance which can potentially cause issues for heat sensitive crops.