LED lighting
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corallimorph
Has been struck by the ban stick
Recived my three Solaris units today for new culture systems at the home lab.............unbelievable....will post pics as soon as i can close my mouth.
Boomer
Reef Sanctuary's Mr. Wizard
Billy
I spent allot of time with Pat at MACNA. In the near future the optics of the lights will be changed to give even more output. When we were at the booth on the laptop we were looking a another new type of optic. Pat is now looking at a couple of really good possibilities.
Pat also had another new lamp there we were looking at that was not on display. It is a no thrills LED unit with just a on-off switch and 2 fans for cooling. This new lamp had 10 white 4.8 W LED plus 1 LED as a Moon Light designed to be used on smaller tanks. It was really bright. The other lamps are 3 W LED.
I spent allot of time with Pat at MACNA. In the near future the optics of the lights will be changed to give even more output. When we were at the booth on the laptop we were looking a another new type of optic. Pat is now looking at a couple of really good possibilities.
Pat also had another new lamp there we were looking at that was not on display. It is a no thrills LED unit with just a on-off switch and 2 fans for cooling. This new lamp had 10 white 4.8 W LED plus 1 LED as a Moon Light designed to be used on smaller tanks. It was really bright. The other lamps are 3 W LED.
theskunk
Member
i talked to a customer last week who had purchased an led system (now i havnt seen it so i cant say either way) and was in the store to buy vho bulbs he said he wasnt very impressed with it which made me wonder if there is a break in period or what but thats alot of money to spend on "not that impressed" i dont like to badmouth any product that i havnt seen myself but i thought i would put the info out there
lcstorc
Well-Known Member
I just spoke to a guy at our local reef club yesterday who has them and loves them. He is a long time SW person and gave rave reviews. He claims that he is now getting much better growth than with his mh, and his electric bill has reduced tremendously. I'm trying to get him on RS so he can give us all the scoop.
corallimorph
Has been struck by the ban stick
Sorry all I'm having connection problems at home...and will post pics as soon as i can fix this problem.
The only downside i can see so far is that there is little to NO spread to the light so I'm reconfiguring my plans and using two units (side by side) to illuminate a 24" wide system
In other words..i would never recommend this lighting system as a complete system for a tank any wider that the light fixture itself.....But they Rock!-Dave
P.S. one good thing about the limited '"spread" is that very little algae seems to grow on the glass
The only downside i can see so far is that there is little to NO spread to the light so I'm reconfiguring my plans and using two units (side by side) to illuminate a 24" wide system
In other words..i would never recommend this lighting system as a complete system for a tank any wider that the light fixture itself.....But they Rock!-Dave
P.S. one good thing about the limited '"spread" is that very little algae seems to grow on the glass
corallimorph
Has been struck by the ban stick
I'm setting up a 120 w/two 48" units and a 180 w/two-72"units.
(Both 24" deep).
(i originaly planned on setting up four seperate tanks)
(Both 24" deep).
(i originaly planned on setting up four seperate tanks)
