Lighting Control
The Argus system provides specialized control programs for
operating a lighting system in photoperiod or supplementary regimes. Photoperiod
lighting control is used for day length management. Supplementary lighting
control is typically used to turn on HID (high intensity discharge) lighting
systems whenever the ambient light levels are insufficient for the desired plant
response.Lighting program features include:
- Photoperiod start/end time settings can be absolute (time of day) or
relative (tied to dawn or dusk)
- Cyclical lighting settings for energy efficient photoperiod control
- Time windowed supplementary light control
- Automatic reset of user initiated overrides
- Light sensor based operation
- Light level and light duration proving times
- Light accumulation override features to reduce energy costs and extend
lamp life
- Minimum cycle on times to prevent short cycling of lighting equipment
In addition to these standard features, custom lighting programming can be
accomplished with supplementary enhanced equation programs.
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