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Photone App

HaanfSolo
HaanfSolostarted grow question 7mo ago
Has anyone had experience with the Photone App? If so, what was your experience? Is it accurate?
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HerbalEdu
HerbalEduanswered grow question 7mo ago
accuracy may vary greatly from one phone to another depending how good is the camera. some phones will give rather accurate result, some other phones totally funky readings
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Still_Smoq
Still_Smoqanswered grow question 7mo ago
I use it, and yes it works just fine. Of course you can go spend some cash on a serious “high tech” meter that will give you a more exact reading. But this app does the job.
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ATLien415
ATLien415answered grow question 7mo ago
You can buy real meters to do real measuring and math, not interpolation and modelling (which is what photone does). Bonus is that real meters often come partitioned by wavelength, which can be even more illustrative for us growers. Not hating on it, if you don't have any idea then yes use it. Pretty much any serious/valid review of it I have seen boils down to 'this I use for anchoring only' as in, they use it to get a number then using the same settings see what their changes do to the readings
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AestheticGenetix
AestheticGenetixanswered grow question 7mo ago
yes it works better than not having one and it is fairly accurate. its good to have
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MrCoffee
MrCoffeeanswered grow question 7mo ago
Hi, Photon did not work for me. I use PPFD Meter app which was more accurate than Photon when i used it side by side with a meter i had bought on amazon. Both gave me the same ppfd with +/- 5 umol. Hope this helps!
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hightech316
hightech316answered grow question 7mo ago
Gave me a ball park number. I ended up learning about a money saving hack! On youtube from Migro channel " LUX meter to PAR meter hack | Use a cheap LUX meter to measure PAR " . So , I Bought one of the Lux meter's they had a formula for on Amazon. Check it out !
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