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PAR 🌿 Veg & Training

Photosynthetically Active Radiation — the light bandwidth plants use for photosynthesis, read with a PAR meter to measure intensity at canopy. Jeremy reads around 500 PAR at canopy with his lights at 100%.

Used to set canopy light intensity when running LEDs at 100%.

Discussed in: Ep 005

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