LED full spectrum and Cancers?

[Brado78]

Hey does anyone here know that do LED full spectrum grow lights can cause or contribute to certain cancers from a distance or in general?

Thanks

 

[Greenman]

Yes if you live in CA. The lights will have a prop 65 label on them somewhere. I know that because everything in CA has a prop 65 warning label.

 

[Sgt. York]

Living in California is detrimental to your health and your wallet.

 

[Greenman]

Living in California is detrimental to your health and your wallet.

Don't forget your sanity.

 

[Sgt. York]

Don't forget your sanity.

You know when you've completely lost it when Newsome starts making sense.

 

[Micrornd]

Don't forget your sanity.

That's right, you live in Cali !
Explains a lot !

(Maybe you shoulda kept that one to yourself )

 

[FaaR]

Hey does anyone here know that do LED full spectrum grow lights can cause or contribute to certain cancers from a distance or in general?

Are you asking a question or making a statement? I am unaware of any consumer LED lighting that outputs UV - the only sort of light capable of causing cancer. I kind of doubt that is an actual thing, if it's even possible to make white LEDs put out UV I would think it would be illegal - or well, at least in the EU where I live. Manufacturers had to start putting UV filters on halogen bulbs back in the 1980s already, because of the risk of eye damage primarily as I recall it but cancer might have been a consideration also.

 

[IronWing]

Getting LEDs that output UV is expensive compared with visible light LEDs so one has to seek out UV LEDs. UV-A LEDs are the cheapest and most available with UV-B LEDs less common and UV-C LEDs rare, quite expensive, low power, and destroy themselves in a short time.

<== fluorescent mineral nerd forever waiting for the holy grail of cheap, powerful UV-C LEDs.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Getting LEDs that output UV is expensive compared with visible light LEDs so one has to seek out UV LEDs. UV-A LEDs are the cheapest and most available with UV-B LEDs less common and UV-C LEDs rare, quite expensive, low power, and destroy themselves in a short time.

<== fluorescent mineral nerd forever waiting for the holy grail of cheap, powerful UV-C LEDs.

Does the C in UV-C stand for "Cancer"?

 

[IronWing]

Does the C in UV-C stand for "Cancer"?

Yeah but all three can cause cancer, UV-C just gets it done faster. The real pisser is that peak effectiveness for sterilization is at 260nm so LED manufacturers are targeting R&D at that wavelength. Shortwave fluorescent minerals response at 255nm and below so cheap, powerful UV-C LEDs may not quite reach us.

 

[Scarpozzi]

My wife bought a bunch of grow lights off Amazon just recently. I'm gonna have a talk with her.