[de145]

I look in on my "ladies" every morning and inspect them for a few minutes first thing with the LED light on. I'm not looking directly at it at any time, just at the plants.

When I walk away into normal lighting my eyes feel weird for a few minutes, like I strained them or something even though the light didn't seem too bright or hurt my eyes when I was doing my inspection.

There is no UV specific wavelength in my lights so I'm not concerned about that but I'm wondering if the combination of them being ultra bright but also not in a spectrum that the eyes normally perceive as bright means I might be getting too much light even though I don't see it that way if you know what I mean?

I'm thinking about getting some kind of safety glasses to work in there. Does anyone else use safety glasses under LED? What type would be best? Something yellowish to counteract the red and blue or just dark grey or...?

Originally Posted by de145

I look in on my "ladies" every morning and inspect them for a few minutes first thing with the LED light on. I'm not looking directly at it at any time, just at the plants.

When I walk away into normal lighting my eyes feel weird for a few minutes, like I strained them or something even though the light didn't seem too bright or hurt my eyes when I was doing my inspection.

There is no UV specific wavelength in my lights so I'm not concerned about that but I'm wondering if the combination of them being ultra bright but also not in a spectrum that the eyes normally perceive as bright means I might be getting too much light even though I don't see it that way if you know what I mean?

I'm thinking about getting some kind of safety glasses to work in there. Does anyone else use safety glasses under LED? What type would be best? Something yellowish to counteract the red and blue or just dark grey or...?

so hi here i simple answer ,u should always wear special glasses while working when lights are on , especially with SOME leds because led lights emit light spectrum which is not good for retina it promotes retina cancer ,i read it in german national sanitary security and allimentation
so wear googles and be safe

[Socrates]

CREE advises that high-powered colored LEDs can be dangerous. I'm wondering, though, if any old sunglasses are good enough to combat this danger, or whether there are safety glasses specially formulated for LED light. I know that there are laser safety glasses formulated for specific wavelengths of lasers, but these are quite expensive (several hundred bucks for a pair) and, in any case, I haven't seen any that cover both blue and red spectra. Anyone have suggestions?

[exploziv]

turn off leds and hids when you enter growroom.. and have some cfl's/t5 as side lighting.

[de145]

I'm going to wear yellow tinted safety glasses. After some experimenting, they seem to best cut right down both the blue and the red to manageable levels but leave it bright enough to see what I'm doing. I agree though exploziv_gbb that the best thing is probably some daylight white cfl's because they would also be much better for plant inspection than the flashlight I'm currently using. (It's not a grow "room" so much as a cabinet)

[Socrates]

Hey de145, same situation (and same light) here. Link to the safety glasses you settled on? Also, how's your grow going under the light?

[de145]

Originally Posted by Socrates

Hey de145, same situation (and same light) here. Link to the safety glasses you settled on? Also, how's your grow going under the light?

BAsically just like these: https://www.amazon.com/Protecting-Adj.../dp/B001RKFZPC

I'm happy with the light so far but only really getting going since I changed a lot of stuff at the same time and basically decided to completely emulate VerdantGreen's modular scrog method on here so I have only my first two scrogs at about 1.5 weeks flowering and two more coming in later so early days yet.

But I am happy because I have run a full test cycle on a cbd rich indica in a half gallon pot (just a small one, no scrog at that time) and it's due for harvest in a week and it's noticeably a lot denser than a clone of the same mum was under cfl's previously and I also managed to bleach the tip so I know the light has a lot of power and that it can produce far denser buds.

My only concern is that this light needs to be 20 inches above my scrog netting to properly cover a 2' by 2' area and I'm not sure how high the buds will grow for my strains done scrog style so I'm not sure if they will get close enough to the light for similarly dense nugs as I'm seeing with my more traditionally grown cbd plant that was closer to the lights for most of it's growth (though not a *lot* closer). So I guess it's early days yet.

How's it going for you Socrates?

[Socrates]

Hey man, not much to report, still waiting to really get started. The pepper plants I'm testing things out on started out slow, so I added some daylight LEDs to augment the blue, seems to have helped a bit. Increased heat though, so I may need to work on ventilation (looking into a booster fan and a different scrubber perhaps). Here's what things look like now:

[cbr7]

3M maxim weldingshade dx spectacles

https://catalogue.3m.eu/en_ZA/PPESafe...ctacles~nocode

Found these pretty good. Costed 11 EUR to me. Why pay 100 EUR for pilot look.

[az2000]

I have Shade 5 welding glasses. The green color helps compensate for the magenta color of typical LED lights. They're a bit dark. I think Shade 3 might work better.