Full spectrum lighting is light that covers the electromagnetic spectrum from infrared through near-ultraviolet, or in other words full spectrum lighting includes all wavelengths that are useful for plants or animal life. Sunlight is considered full spectrum, but the solar spectral distribution reaching Earth varies with atmospheric conditions, latitude, and time of day. Full Spectrum Lighting is optically balanced artificial lighting that acts as the duplicate for the clarity and color intensity mid-day sunlight. Full Spectrum Lighting , like the name suggests includes the entire group of light rays from ultraviolet to VIBGYOR (Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and Red) to infrared. What is unique about Full Spectrum tubes are the earth phosphors used to manufacture Full Spectrum Light tubes. Full Spectrum lighting that does not have this in their tubes should be avoided.

These Full spectrum lights can be used in offices for full spectrum lighting. Just by replacing your ordinary fluorescent lighting that is cool white and warm white throughout your offices with Full Spectrum Lighting tubes. Installing full spectrum lighting will provide the natural outdoor lighting the body naturally requires. It will be as though you installed skylights. The difference in full spectrum lighting is not slight and the results are immediate. With full spectrum lighting your office lighting will be consistent whether you have a corner windowed office or one with no window at all. Other benefits of full spectrum lighting are the reduction of glare on computer screens which reduces eye strain, headaches, and general fatigue. Installing Full Spectrum Lighting in offices will provide a positive effect on the mental and physical well-being of your office staff, also helps in decreasing work related stress and irritation, and increasing the staff concentration levels. Full spectrum lighting naturally leads to better work performance and improved production.

Proper home lighting with full spectrum lighting makes a great difference in the ambiance and functionality of your home. When full spectrum lighting is positioned properly, it provides good lighting, functional lighting and acts as a great decorative item all at the same time. Use of these balanced spectrum lamps which provide full spectrum lighting help the artist make sure that the colors appear as they will when the works are displayed in an open space or an art gallery. Full spectrum lighting is also used by scientists or for color-matching in paint stores where north sunlight is unavailable.

Light spectrum differences on plants must be studied carefully as it plays a great role in healthy growth of plants. Full Spectrum light bulbs give out a color tone and a color temperature, both of these affect the growth of a young plant. Young seedlings need the blue light spectrum, whereas older plants require the red/orange light. An incandescent bulb has a red-yellowish tone and gives a low color temperature. Full spectrum lighting is best for these situations. In contrast, sunlight looks bluish and has a high color temperature, so an incandescent bulb is not at all the best choice for growing plants but full spectrum lighting bulbs. A full-spectrum bulb is a good choice for plant propagation because full spectrum lighting makes the appropriate light shades available at all times to best meet the plant's needs. Full spectrum bulbs work well for propagation of plants because they burn cool. Important about full spectrum lighting, because with tiny little plants in flats you need to keep the full spectrum lighting around four inches above the seedlings, so that they can grow strong and stocky, and not weak and spindly because they are stretching up to a full spectrum lighting that is positioned too far away from them.

Full spectrum light controls our biological rhythms and is well known to regulate the delicate balance between melatonin and serotonin. The production of a sleep-related hormone called melatonin, which could cause depression, increases when the days are shorter and darker. Due to unavailability of sunlight throughout the day, people would have more chances to get SAD which can be cured by full spectrum lighting. Generally, these people have the symptoms of easily feeling tired, depressed and irritated. They also have a loss of appetite, weight gain or loss, and a severe dip in energy level. Full spectrum lighting has all these solutions. During fall and winter months, when sunlight tends to be scarce north of the equator, many people experience Seasonal Affective Disorder which is properly known as SAD. It is the lack of light which causes an imbalance in brain chemistry, leading people to feel depressed and lethargic. Full Spectrum Light Therapy which uses full spectrum lighting has been used for years to treat seasonal depression. Not all Light Therapy boxes are created equal. Size, price and features can vary greatly, so do some research before making a buying decision. Pay close attention to your abilities to perform tasks in the light of your house and also pay attention to your moods, because full spectrum lighting will elevate moods and create the contrast without glare necessary for reading.