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Expedited Horticultural Lighting Applications

The DLC is offering a limited time option to expedite your horticultural application review. Learn how!

Key Takeaways
  • Policies, review timeframes, and fees for expediting your horticultural lighting application.
Guidance for Submitting Horticultural Product Images

Guidance for Submitting Horticultural Product Images

Because product design and form factor can vary considerably between manufacturers and brands, the DLC requires a product image to accompany each Hort V3.0 QPL listing. This guidance document details the DLC's requirements and style guidelines for product images.

In this Resource
  • Requirements and guidelines for formatting and submitting product images to accompany Hort V3.0 applications.

External Horticultural Tools and Resources

These resources are supplemental materials for particular areas of interest in horticultural lighting. Although these external resources and tools were not created by the DLC, they may be helpful for those in CEA industry.

Key Takeaways
  • Horticultural Tools and Calculators
  • State Cannabis Regulations

DLC Member Program Summaries – Horticultural Lighting

Updated as of: 2/18/22 This list displays which DLC Members provide rebates for horticultural LED lighting. Please visit the program websites for additional detail.

Testing Tightly Packed Arrays of LED Packages

This resource outlines an alternative approach for thermal testing of products with tightly packed LED arrays under SSL Technical Requirements V5.1, and defines circumstances in which it is appropriate to test products using the alternative approach.

Key Takeaways
  • Outlines an alternative approach for thermal testing of products with tightly packed LED arrays.
  • Defines circumstances in which it is appropriate to test products using the alternative approach.
Horticultural Lighting and Spectral Tuning

Horticultural Lighting & Spectral Tuning

This resource answers the following questions: what are spectrally tunable products, what are spectral tuning channels, what is needed in DLC applications for spectrally tunable products, and what is published on the QPL for spectrally tunable products?

Key Takeaways
  • Defines spectrally tunable products and spectral tuning channels.
  • Detail on specific test reports and documentation needed to qualify a spectrally tunable product.
  • Examples of acceptable control narratives for spectrally tunable products.

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