How Does Pico Max work?
Timer: The inbuilt timer in Pico Max is an industry first. With an RTC( Real Time Clock) chipset powered by a button cell, it has a clock of its own. The operation is simple - using the single button switch in the bottom, punch in your local time in hours on a 24h clock, that’s all. The timer wakes up the grow lights at 0800h and shuts it off at 2000h every day. Many products like Aerogarden and Click and Grow do have a timer that begins when they are last plugged in, but when power is gone, they lose the memory. Only Pico Max has an RTC clock-based timer.
This is housed in a transparent cover in the accent colors of the product, celebrating the clever electronics inside. Some say this is reminiscent of the iMac G3 of the past.
Battery: Pico Max has a 10,000mAh Li-Po battery pack, which can power it through 4 days and can be charged overnight with a phone charger.
Pico Max ships with a standard rear cover that has curved edges. When the optional battery is ordered, it ships separately with a battery rear cover with a flat back. With a slight additional thickness, one gains autonomy without being tethered to a power source.
The battery is the single most requested feature of Pico. However, this has a lot of challenges as the power requirement of grow lights are huge. More light energy given means quicker plant growth and conversely, quicker plant growth means more power for long which cannot be sustained by a battery in a small form factor. This is why Pico Max has the first horticultural grow lights that are battery-powered.
Dimming: Pico Max has infrared proximity sensors on the LED unit that dims the LED lights to reduce the light output.
This is an Industry-first safety feature implemented to reduce leaf burn and fatigue in plants. We have tuned the Infrared Transmitter and Receiver pair to activate the dimming at 1.5 inches from the light source. Once the plants grow to this height, which they do quickly thanks to the excellent LEDs from OSRAM with special wavelengths, the reduced light output prevents them from leaf burn. This also alerts the user to either raise the LED unit on the telescopic upright OR prune or harvest the leaves at the top of the canopy.
Lights: Pico was universally loved for the LED grow lights which brought the power of the Sun indoors. Pico Max raises this to another level. The redesigned LED array gets two additional LEDs along with a new wavelength recipe, which supports the widest range of edibles and herbs, ornamentals, florals, and succulent plants, across various growth stages from germination to vegetative to flowering and fruition.
We have full-spectrum white LEDs along with specific wavelengths of red and blue, all from OSRAM Germany.
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