White paint Vs silver mylar test for grow rooms 

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Just wanted to let you know that I'm buying a Migro from you because of your continued commitment to grow research man, never felt better to buy a light!

How about vs. panda film

Such an awesome test, brilliant. Thanks for taking your time to do this

This is an awesome test! First time I've seen this done! Very awesome and informative.. of course, one of the other can be used without any issues.. but this is very informative to someone who really wants to maximize photons to plant canopy! Very awesome! And quick to the point. You are awesome, Shane!

Thanks for the great work, I'm early but Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ! Looking forward to new Migro Tech in 2022. Peace

Great video as always Shane

Thank you for everything you do bud

Another great video Shane we appreciate it.

I just went back to your channel to find a similar video you did like 3 years ago! So glad to see this today- keep up the great work my man!!

I've seen some tests on this before. When I did my grow closet, it was off-white primer, and quite dirty. After the first grow cycle and cleaning, I rolled on 2 coats of satin white, Immediately noticed the difference as I was painting with a small work light. When in doubt, or on a budget, roll on some white paint, if all else fails, the place will at least look cleaner.

always wondered this thx you so much migro

Always great work, thanks.

Awesome video and great test. I have been wondering myself which might be better and what the differences between the two might be

Great video! I've wondered this myself. Was planning on adding silver mylar but now I see the improvement isn't that much over matte white.

great insight.. thanks Shane

Versatility in all areas of lumens association.Very interesting!Thankyou!

Thank you, I have wondered what the results of this comparison test would be.

That’s one good looking light in the test!

Great test.. thanks

Migro delivers them prof. results again! The refraction of the two is Very interesting,I'm curious about how comparison of bar style,quantum,and even far red and UV differ under varying heights OR the reflectivity of each. Great video Migro! U keep an ADHD man leaning forward with interest,bravo👏🤙👍

Good to know thanks for your time

Great experiment Shane! Could you please do one with matte white vs gloss white?

My reporpused closet is coverd with a thin layer of white styropor I had left over from renewing the floor, seems to reflect pretty good.

Good point to bring up about side wall reflections also being used better with a lower hanging height due to better LED spread. The crossover spread your Migro lights put out defy physics compared to my regular panels spaced out. Not to mention the extra vertical space you can use with those.

Very interesting with the white reflecting in all directions rather than the mylar being able to keep photons going toward the plant.. not elsewhere.. very awesome

I use the bladders from wine casks as reflectors. They seem to multiply in my house 😆, so I recycle them & put them to good use. Haven't done PAR tests but they cost nothing & seem to work well.

Hi Shane. Have you ever thought about a test in relation to daisy chained systems? For example I know the maxibright daylight 660w can be interlocked and it would be helpful to know what the optimal distance would be for both distance between light and distance from the canopy. Cheers.

There's a new special super white paint that has been made that will be a game changer for many industries...wonder how that would compare

Hello Shane. Thank you for the top quality content. I would really like if you could make a vid recommending UVB lights for small spaces (60cm x 60cm). The Migro UVB 310 seems great but would be overkill in such a small space. Thx.

hi Shane, have you done any testing og homebox solution of reflective walls called par + vs diamond mylar vs stucco etc on led growlights with fullspec + monochrome smds and or is it any difference using par + than regular white gardner plastic reflective material like they state about leds especially ould benefit from par + ? ive owned 1 but did never finish any flowerings in my 80 x 80 x 180 par + ambient tent as i had a larger silverline tent i transferred my grows to from the par + tent

Hi, Shane. Excellent comparison. is Migro also preparing pure blue light (6500k) for cuttings and vegetative phases? otherwise absolutely great Migro lights. I use them in all boxes. thanks for the reply. David

I sure would like one of them Spot on sensors. Amazon dosen't sell them, so I downloaded the photon app. Question... why was it you placed a paper filter on your last comparison test? You forgot to mention that. Thanks for all you do 🌱☘

You should try the new ultra white paint that the university just made up with barium sulfate. Could be a game-changer for grow rooms

Held my breath throughout… happy with the results as I use white walls… much nicer environment for humans than the silver… better for spotting insects too 🦠🪱💚👊✌️🙏

Any chance that you will review the szhlux sz-pt4000

What's up great test

In x Ray all we want is primary beam waste and scatter is useless just like waste. On the spot on par sensor definitely like the video Thankyou

I wonder about those white grow tents if they are better than regular mylar.

Whats the light in the test? Looks gorgeous

can you do mylar against white pvc or pvu sheeting. black on one side and white on the other side???

I wonder how the white would fare if you used gloss white against the Mylar film ? I realy like theese kinds of vidieos

Great vid as awlays

Hey Shane I had an interesting question... Or maybe it's quite boring haha. How much of an impact do you think air circulation from fans have when they blow and rustle mylar on the inside of the walls? Sometimes I notice it can move pretty frantically haha

I would love a white emulsion with a typica spacle..

Orca reflective sheeting is Without doubt the best. Second to that I found Tyvek house wrap to be almost as uniform. They both feel like the same material. Also Titanium contents in flat white paint differ in strength's so cheap white paint not as good as expensive. Would love to see a Orca v Tyvek comparison JKP.

I remember reading a ask Ed book and dude saying clean styrofoam was 99% reflective.

What would be your recommended wait time to allow the paint to dry before placing any green life inside of the painted area???

hi shane, whats your thoughts on survival blanket,they are a cheep camping sheet,or for a tramper

Migro do you read your comments? I have been asking for your opinion on a certain brand light for months and you haven't even Acknowledged me

I always assumed Matt emulsion was light absorbent and vinyl silk light reflective.

What about black walls for reference?

But did you test the heat levels between the two as well? Heard that there's around a five degree difference from white to mylar. Can you prove or disprove that side of the debate? Ty in advance if you address my question.

Hello Shane, hope all is good with you! I was wondering if you could answer one question I have about my Aray Pro. I was wondering what material or compound is used between the LED PCB and aluminium heatsink? I would like to know if this can be replaced for different thermal compound with the hope of decreasing the temperature within the LEDs and equalising the temperature even further. I would love to hear what you think on this idea. Thanks and take care!

Any thoughts/test on the new SANLIGHT EVO series? Seems pretty good: 1x1m: 2x Sanlight Evo3-100: 389 W average 967µmol/m²/s minimum: 855µmol/m²/s maximum:1.102µmol/m²/s homogeneity: 88% USABLE: --> 2,49µmol/J +Ip65+secondary optics+extremely good build quality

Thank you for your continuing effort and dedication to the "cause". Compliments from Portugal

Nice. As always, a pristine presentation. And I agree the diamond Mylar is best. But better to have something than letting the light just bounce away and dissipate into the room. And for a super cheap alternative, a scrunched up Mylar survival blanket can be applied to 2-3 large foam project boards and hinged with duct tape to easily make a sweet set of folding reflectors. Spray adhesive will do the trick to make it stick. Then you can conform it tightly to your growing area, and move them out of the way for maintenance, watering, etc. 💚💚💚✌️🥳

Why not use mirrors?

I've grown with both 100% white tent

I actually just got done with 4 coats of flat white in my prop cabinet. Super bright. For the coast of one gallon of white primer sealer, Compared to the cost of the Mylar, It’s a no brainer

Panda paper vs anything.. I built my grows room with orca.

Thanks for the info and good test! Both surfaces work well. But did you know that there is one YT channel with videos showing that white is superior surface... They base that statement on their test showing that with white surfaces there's more light *above* the light fixture...🤦🏻‍♂️. What do you need the light there for 😂? But of course the test is correct and shows the white surface scattering the light more (also to where you don't want it).

There is another way to get more than both the white or the "shiny" mylar, but you couldn't line a tent with it. It's hard to explain. I compared using sunlight and the reflection increased almost 300 micromoles. If I remember, it went from 2100 to 2400 micromoles. Aluminum alloy.

white costs £20 more than the silver version in grow tents, BudBox at least.

Test the photo bio Mx it kills mate

He said higher hanging Myler is better but white walls are just as good in lower hangin area rooms also

Part of me says, "good enough", and use whatever you have. Part of me says, "thank you", and don't leave money on the table not getting all the light you paid to use. Nice job!

I'm hanginging your light at 6 inches.... I thought that was minimum hanginging

I would really like to see someone test the gloss-vs-matte hypothesis. While "matt[e] is better than gloss" is certainly the accepted wisdom in this arena, in others it is the opposite, and in all cases the mechanistic explanations are lacking, or thin and unconvincing. I might have to do it myself, since I do have a PAR meter and some lights.

Im gonna run mirror around my room 😉

Mylar 1680D ¿

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Send someone a array to do a review of your invention in a cannabis grow. Surely you can afford one small donation in the name of science

This is with open top.If u close the light in a box u get different results...mylar almost the same,with white u get better results if u do the test properly.

My Bhoy🍀🇮🇪☘✊🏻💡💡💡

dont know if you noticed but center values were higher with white walls. ill bet high gloss white paint would work better. i was shocked at the results of this test. awesome test/ i myself always believed the white walls work best.

No way mylar will beat my ultra white matte flat white by Valspar paint.. Just wayyy too bright 😆

A difference of this magnitude really doesn't seem significant. I suspect it to be well within the margin of error, resulting from slight differences in exact placement of the measuring-device between tests, maybe slightly different angles in the walls between tests, and soon. I think your reasoning why diffusively reflecting materials perform worse is flawed. Here is why: (I just posted the following comment under your previous videos comparing different sheeting-materials, before I saw that you uploaded this video here just a week ago...) I think you should test the orca-sheeting again, but with an updated methodology to better simulate a real-life setup for growing. The setup in which you tested the orca-sheeting in your prior videos seems severely biased against the orca-sheeting for several reasons. I'm currently trying to figure out what kind of sheeting I should get, and it seems like the Lighthouse sheeting would be a good idea, but I'm not yet convinced that it beats the orca sheeting. This is my reasoning: 1.) The orca-sheeting doesn't cover the entirety of the walls, neither vertically nor horizontally. 1.a) The gaps at the corners are bound to swallow a significant amount of photons. 1.b) The missing orca-film above the lighting fixture is bound to result in upward-reflected photons (reflected from the orca sheeting) being bounced almost exclusively towards the top. If there was a diffuse sheeting / diffuse scattering above the lighting fixture, many of the photons which initially get scattered upwards by the orca would subsequently be scattered back down again. 1.c) The open wall on one side (to take measurements) might also impact the results of the orca-sheeting more than non-diffuse materials. I don't know whether this is the case, but I don't think one should discount the possibility. It would also be possible to close the fourth wall for testing-purposes simply by using an elevated floor with holes at the locations of measurement. A fair and thorough comparison of different sheeting-materials would require covering all of the walls and the ceiling equally, and without gaps (apart from tent-poles and the usual stuff inside a tent like vent-openings). IMO even the floor should in part be covered with the material in question, to most closely simulate a life-like environment, i.e. filled with plants but not overcrowded. I really think you should take this into consideration in your comparisons. You try to be very thorough in your analyses, and I highly appreciate your content. But your reasoning why non-diffuse materials should be better seems severely flawed when considering a real-life environment, i.e. inside a space completely covered with the same reflective sheeting on at least 4 sides, most likely 5 or 6 (ceiling and floor).

Sorry you need to redo you used plain white you should be using ultra white much better then mylar 80% brighter then mylar....try ultra white not plain white

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