PRODUCTREVIEW
Nanolux DE Chill
Nanolux DE Chill
T
he sun is the main energy source for the
entire garden when growing outdoors. For
indoor horticulture, the artificial lighting sys-
tem is the main energy source for the garden.
This is why it is so important for indoor horticultur-
ists to search for the very best when it comes to the
artificial lighting system. Horticultural lighting has
come a long way over the last twenty years. In fact,
many of the early indoor gardens used little more than
retrofitted street lamps or fluorescent shop lights to
grow plants. Compared with the horticultural lighting
systems of today, those technologies are horribly inef-
ficient.
Even though great strides have been made in
the horticultural lighting sector, a grower should still
be concerned about his or her lighting system’s ef-
ficiency and effectiveness. There are large variances
in the quality, efficiency and effecti veness of different
horticultural lighting systems. When shopping for a
lightning system, a grower needs to consider all of
the advantages and disadvantages and make the most
informed decision possible regarding which system
would be the best for his or her particular garden.
For modern growers with larger growing facilities, a
horticultural lighting system will ideally have three
attributes: the ability to produce intense and usable
light, the ability to be efficiently cooled, and the abil-
ity to be controlled remotely or automatically. There is
one lighting system in particular that encompasses all
three of these attributes and more. That lighting sys-
tem is the Nanolux DE Chill.
Nanolux DE Chill
The Nanolux DE Chill is the first double ended
(DE) commercial overlap fixture of its type to hit the
indoor horticulture market. The Nanolux DE Chill’s
design includes an onboard ballast, substantial 8” air
cooling ports and comes ready to connect to the NCCS
(Nanolux Cloud Control System) APP. The large port
air-cooled design allows a grower to remove up to
60% of the heat load from the growing area. The on-
board ballast makes cooling even more efficient as the
heat from both the ballast and the bulb is exhausted
via air-cooling. The efficiency of the air-cooled design
reduces the cooling needs for the entire growing facil-
ity.
A gardener can reduce the air conditioning re-
quirements of his or her garden space with the Na-
nolux DE Chill. The entirely enclosed design comes
complete with a fully gasketed access door for trou-
ble-free lamp changes and glass cleanings. The optical
quality tempered glass lens only reduces the light by
6%, which is easily offset by the ability to move the
lights closer to the plant canopy. In fact, due to the ef-
ficiency of the air-cooled design, the Nanolux DE Chill
can generally be placed closer to the plant canopy
than a typical open DE system which raises light in-
tensities on the plant canopy by upwards of 20%.
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