About Us
UYS is the premier horticulture lighting distributor focusing on LED lighting technology and energy management solutions helping facilities optimize crop yield, reduce cost, and meet sustainability goals.
UYS offers a fully-integrated solution to help meet your lighting and energy management needs from product selection to financing to installation and more! Our distribution model and bottom-line approach helps you realize significant ROI backed by experts who focus on horticulture.
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Why Ultra Yield Solutions?
Unlike other lighting experts, we speak grower. Technology and specifications mean very little to plants. UYS understands photosynthesis at a molecular level and how today’s LED technology can maximize it. That’s exactly what you expect and need in a partner.
News and Blogs
Check out our blog posts and recent news to stay informed.
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Musings on The Mega Show MJBizCon 2022
Originally published by LightNow News by Guest Author Andy Montgomery, President of Ultra Yield Solutions. This year’s MJBizCon was a mix of new market enthusiasm subdued by mature market malaise. Like previous shows, stalwart lighting brands prominently displayed their wares including Gavita, Fluence, HLG, Signify, Fohse, etc. Booths were massive with most providing sunglasses to […]
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CEA Lessons Learned from Europe
You can’t take for granted that water will always be readily available.
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Top Industry Challenges in CEA
At a recent Resource Innovation Institute (RII)* conference, the attendees discussed common industry challenges impacting CEA growers consistently. While the breath of topics were varied, it was impressive to hear about the obstacles they face from those actively working in the industry. It was apparent they care deeply about solving the food insecurity issues occurring […]
FAQs
No. Today’s spectra and intensities make LED lamps outstanding, highly efficient replacements to HPS. That said, temperature tends to be the largest influencer on yield during swap-outs—not source of light! In greenhouses, watch your canopy temperature and adjust accordingly. For indoor grows, increase facility temperature around 10o F to account for the heat loss you will notice when switching to LED; then tweak as necessary.
No. It may have value in the lab when determining the best recipe for a new strain. Once determined, uniformity is critical—not variance. Keep tunable fixtures in the lab, uniform fixtures everywhere else.
It can be. The U.S. Federal Government prohibits FDIC banking institutions from lending to cannabis facilities. Others lenders apply a higher rate that can only be considered “loan shark.” UYS has isolated funding sources investing in this sector that provide rates more in line with traditional financing. Let us show you what we can do.
Depending on the fixture, the answer is about 40% versus the cost to power HPS. When you add-in eligible utility incentives and lower-cost funding rates, your monthly electric bill can be lower with new LED lighting than sticking with old, inefficient HPS fixtures.
Five years! HPS luminaires and bulbs come with no warranty, annual bulb replacements, supplemental AC costs to mitigate the heat, and over 1000W of inefficiency. Typically, LED fixtures come with a five-year guarantee and an expected lifetime exceeding 50,000 hours!
