Protective goggles for growing lamps

Growing lamps allow those who want to grow indoors. However, they are harmful for retina, protective goggles then preserve the health of your eyes. 

Threats associated with horticultural lighting

An horticultural lamp generates a light that is simultaneously more condensed and brighter than a conventional light bulb. This is why repeated use without protection at high intensity can accelerate the aging of the eyeball.

We would like to focus your attention on white lights and blue-colored radiations. Children under the age of 10 are exposed to toxic stress because they don’t have yellow lenses or macular pigments yet thus they are not able to filter blue light at least not like adults. It is also worth noting that blue light is also the subject of studies on its impacts on adults. According to them, it is generating ocular stress, fatigue and headaches.

Regarding light emitting diodes, according to recent studies, so-called « hot » LEDs, which are more common in Europe, are less harmful than the so-called « cold » LEDs, which are dominating the Asian market.

Bad habits consequences

If you are working unprotected, in your culture area, a visual discomfort will not take long to manifest. In fact right from the first second the lighting power of your installation will make you blink and wrinkle. Moreover if you have to take samples to check the condition, you will have to reach a different place with a more natural light. Your eyes will then go through an acclimatization phase, which will be more or less long depending on the duration of exposure.

The inconvenience caused must be taken seriously, as it is an anwer from your body to its bad treatment. In reality, he is warning you that irreversible damage will happen if theses bad practices are repeated.

Do not substitute sunglasses for real protective goggles

It is important to understand that sunglasses are not meant to protect your eyes from the light produced by horticultural lighting.

Their light spectrum is very tight, which is good for your plants but on the other hand very bad for the eyes because the retina and the cornea of ​​the eye need a large spectrum light in order to focus, see shapes, detect movements and perceive colors.

The sunglasses alter your vision, darken and create a blur.

The color rendition is not accurate and the focus is even more difficult. Your brain will then struggle to compensate.

Furthermore facing the lighting directly will immediately cause you to have light patches in your field of view, leading him to be disrupted. Theses light patches are called phosphenes, and after a period of time, which varies according to the exposure and the luminous power, they may disappear. However in some cases, the use of restorative surgery will be required.

And this is unfortunately not an individual case, nor even the only reason for surgical intervention on horticulturists. Nocturnal blindness is the problem that affects the most greenhouse growers. These are real dangers, protection against horticultural lighting is a very serious matter.

Our recommendations

We therefore advise you to use ultraviolet protection goggles, which are essential to prevent the powerful radiation from lamps in cultivation tents. We also recommend the use of lamps equipped with a reflector, which will allow a more homogeneous and concentrated light diffusion and consequently to avoid the points of intensity.

Your color perception is altered by the colors emitted by your lightings, these glasses will allow you to observe your plants by obtaining a color rendition equivalent to what you would have had if your plants were enlighted by a white light.

We insist on the fact that these glasses are an essantial precaution for prolonged exposures or not to the strong illuminations, whether MH, HPS or LED lamps.

We recommend Method Seven glasses, designed for a perfect balance and a better light quality for the specificity of the LED light spectrum.

Method Seven Protective Goggles

While others, distort light and does not limit eye stress, Method Seven protective goggles filter light and balance the colors. The foliage appears to you more distinctly, you spot parasites and defects quickly and easily without having to inspect samples outdoor. Less effort for your eyes and your brain, you will reduce the risk of headaches and any long-term damage. The eyewear brand Method Seven also cancels most ballast stroboscopic effect of HPS lamps.

Finally when you will leave your cultivation area you will not go through the acclimatization process anymore.

HID lamps and dangerous radiation

UV-C is very rarely mentioned. Then it makes sense that many have never heard of it since these are filtered by the upper layers of the atmosphere. They are only a concern for very few, indoor growers are part of it. UV-C is the most hazardous radiation, growing lamps produce all types of radiation, UV A, B and C, Method Seven glasses provide to your eyes an integral protection against them.

For optimum protection

For extended stays in your growing environment do not neglect the protection of your skin, combining sunscreen and a visor with your protective glasses will guarantee you an optimal protection.

In the absence of distinct regulation in this area, it is in your own interest to turn to Horticoled, the only brand that is investing in the research and prevention of light hazards in horticultural crops.

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