When I would have to turn off a third or a half of the lights I paid for to get a healthy lighting for an all SPS tank and not a mixed tank I fail to see how that light is meeting my needs, only that it can with great wastage of resources be used instead of a light that could easily be designed to be used at a lower K value without turning down or off so much of its potential output. I still stand by you can not provide the best lighting for a mixed reef tank with any lighting including LED lighting. Always the best lighting will be provide for one at the cost of less opyimal lighting for another. I believe the LED lighting can upply good lighting dor SPS but like I said at a waste of expensive unusable or unneeded lighting potential. As far as lED bulbs being created foe SPS lighting that is a obvious direction for growth for the aquariyum loghting tarade, as is the bulbs are not the best for usage as reef lighting, but instead klighting put together withwhat existingcomponents are made for other reasons. Just as T-5's became available in different K values, and Halides became available in many K values so will LED's develop into better equipment made with bulbs more appropriate to the specific needs of different reef systems. However, existing materials could be better "arranged" to provide for those needs now,instead of only supplying what is now supplied.
Didactic can be taken as meaning: making moral observtions, or, intended to instruct, inform or teach a moral lesson.
I asume that is not the intended context, as that very statement is like the pot calling the kettle black, or as you would say didactic.
If you are implying I am being didactic because I find it off beat for a moderator or staff member to get hostile beacuse I do not agree with him that a light meets my needs, then this has become to much of a one sided discussion for me to continue in.
I have agreed that it obviously is a good light for its obvious intended market, the mixed reef. As sacrifices are always met with mixed reef lighting anyway, the issue of adequate or best lighting for what type of organism is is moot, as the LED lighting acn meet any of the best lighting just not all at one time. It is a good light for mixed reefs in my opinion because of its advantages over halides as a primary source of light for a mixed reef, meaning, good PAR for wattage used, little heat, and long bulb life and adjustability of K values to suit the viewing preferences of the different mixed reef tank keepers, not because it does or does not provide better lighting for SPS corals.
As far as high K values, in order for the Solaris LED lighting to get the high PAR output the lighting must be diialed up to a high K value, the PAR of the Solaris LED lighting goes down as the K value went down. That is the opposite of a halide where the PAR goes down as the K value is raised, and where the PAR goes up as the K value goes down. This all means that to get lower K values in the Solarois LED lighting the PAR must be sacrificed lessening the lighting advantage of the lighting system when used at lower K values.
I am through with this thread as I have no intent on swapping any more moral digs or insults, nor do I wish to be pushed into saying the Solaris lighting is the answer to all reefing lighting desires and needs. IMO it is not. It is simlply a very expensive better choice lighting for mixed reef tanks where purchase price, this early in the systems development, is not so much of a deciding factor as is having the best lighting available.