Sophisticated Machinery & Careful Craftsmanship
The Growcraft light bars build the foundation for what makes our all-new lights one of the most efficient lights on the market. The process of their creation begins with printed circuit boards that come in sets of 5.
We then load the board into the tray of a stencil machine where we will apply soldering paste. Before applying the paste we will first use two cameras to perfectly line up the stencil with the circuit board.
The stencil machine will then raise up the tray and apply the paste. After the paste is applied the circuit boards are ready for their diodes.
Stencilled circuit boards are then loaded onto our pick and place machine that uses pneumatic placement heads to pull from the feeders and place LED diodes onto the board.
Each light strip gets 140 3000k and 5000k diodes and 15 660nm red diodes, for an impressive total of 295 diodes per strip.
With each pass the pneumatic makes from the feeders to the strips, a camera takes pictures of the diodes and sends them to the computer in order to make micro-adjustments to the placement of the diodes.
After all diodes are placed, two connectors are placed on the ends of each strip. In just one hour our pick and place will place 14,000 diodes on 50 PCBs.
Now that all diodes and connectors are in, the strips will then go into an oven where the diodes will bond to the strips through progressive heating. While in the oven the strips will reach up to 500 degrees F.
After spending 5 minutes in the oven the strips come out and are ready for their quality control check. We check to ensure all diodes illuminate on the board before placing them on a rack to cool.
Next, we separate the cluster into 5 strips using our de-paneling machine. We then use self-tapping screws to mount the individual strips onto our all-aluminum extrusions.
After being screwed onto the extrusions the light bars go through one last quality check.
Lastly, the extrusions are individually wrapped and boxed for our DIY kits, or sent to be assembled into our commercial fixtures.
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Brandon karn says
Cant wait to try one of these out!
Cory Squires says
Pick me
H8tnlife says
Very cool design!
robert hayes says
great info…
Erich Harder says
So cool!!
Mike k says
They look incredible, hoping to see what these can do in the future, especially against some top brands
Mike k says
They look incredible, hoping to see what these can do in the future
Billybong thorton says
Would love to have this set up
Omar rosales says
looking pretty dope !!!
Omar rosales says
Can’t wait to grow with this
Benjamin Tyson says
I’m really digging you guys products. Keep doing good work!!
Christopher Day says
Very cool technologies!
Matt Metzger says
Looks nice
Carmen Barajas says
Nice
Jesse says
Full spectrum i need this
James C. says
These things are intriguing, I’d love to run one and see how much better my crop turns out. I already know they’d outperform my old lights.
Christopher Pett says
I’ve got two of the 500w DIY units on order and I’m stoked to give them a try!
Damiyon Everly says
Excited!
adrian says
very cool
Al Teng says
Can’t wait to grow with these!
Gerry Daydream says
Hearing great stuff about these lights.
Joseph J Santillo says
Awesome stuff guys. Keep up the good work.