Smart Lifter System

Recently LED grow lights have revolutionized indoor and greenhouse cultivation methods. ThinkGrow LEDs are at the cutting edge of LED design within the industry. But LEDs also pose unique new challenges to be overcome in order to get the most from them. Even after choosing the best grow LEDs on the market, even the best grower might discover a common problem: How to effortlessly raise and lower the LEDs to maximize the light efficiency? This is also an issue that ThinkGrow wrestled with over the last few years...The result? Simply the most complete light lifting system ever conceived… The ThinkGrow Smart Light Lifter System.

The ThinkGrow Smart Light Lifter System solves the age-old problem of how to easily raise and lower your supplemental light fixtures. The system is ETL listed and is designed to lift and lower LEDs with the press of a button or by setting a schedule in advance using a TrolMaster HCS controller. Just like all of the other ThinkGrow and TrolMaster equipment, the ThinkGrow Light Lifter System is the first and only SMART light lifter system on the market that offers the advantage of continuous upgrades to your grow facility and hence helps our customers to build pleasant planting yields with the greatest efficiency possible.

To achieve maximum light efficiency, the distance between the LED light and plant canopy should be maintained at a close and ideal distance. When grow lights are hung too high over the plants, much of the light energy is lost before it can reach the plants. An ideal light lifter system allows Light levels to be dimmed to a lower power level while still providing the desired PPFD and proper light spread on the plants. Being able to easily raise and lower the fixtures at the desired height level provides the user with higher overall lighting efficiency.

Maximizing light efficiency in a large-scale growing facility will save an immense amount of energy over time. Grow rooms with a practical light lifter system installed can easily raise and lower the LED light to achieve and maintain this ideal distance throughout the plants’ life cycle.

The ThinkGrow Smart Light Lifter System is engineered to be a modular design, allowing multiple lifters to be synchronized together by daisy-chaining them. This system consists of a Light Lifter (LLT-1) and a Lifter Remote Control (LRC-1). Each lifter can lift up to 132 lbs, 8.8ft in the air. This is accomplished by using precision-controlled motorized lifting assemblies with individual precision positioning transducers. The easily expandable modular lifter system provides user customization, which means users have maximum flexibility on both weight-bearing requirements and lighting layout, by simply changing the number of the modular lifting units.

The ThinkGrow Smart Light System can also connect to the Hydro-X Pro Control System for additional advanced features, enabling users to connect, control and program synchronized operation on multiple light lifters from a single controller. One of the new advanced features when using the Hydro-X Pro controller with the Light Lifter System is the Scheduled Auto-lifting. The System is engineered to seamlessly integrate into this feature. Users can easily raise the LEDs and adjust the lifting schedules according to their needs on the Hydro-X Pro controller. The ideal distance between the LED lights and the plant canopy will be maintained automatically by raising the lights as the plants grow taller.

The Spray Mode is another advanced feature on the Hydro-X Pro controller which allows users to temporarily change the grow room environment during the foliar or pesticide spraying operation. Sometimes growers need to spray their crops. Spraying can be harmful to electronics including LED lights. With the Hydro-X Pro Spray Mode, the users can set up a simple subroutine and adjust the LEDs to move up to a custom height level to protect the LED fixtures from being sprayed. When the spray operation is completed, all settings on the Hydro-X Pro will be automatically turned back to the initial conditions and the fixtures will be lowered back to their original height, mitigating the risk of human error potentially damaging the LED systems.