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Post by jasonandsarah on Sept 24, 2013 7:13:44 GMT -5
I'm sure they'll send a replacement?
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Post by gotareef on Sept 24, 2013 8:48:23 GMT -5
Got my two lights in yesterday.... one has a small crack in the glass splash guard  Any thoughts on this? I have a pic at home of the one with the crack that sux send me the pic I will get you a new one |
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Post by gotareef on Sept 25, 2013 8:20:32 GMT -5
new glass is in the mail today!!
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Post by evilbuell on Sept 26, 2013 5:32:11 GMT -5
Funny though I hung them and they don't seem that bright... im surprised people are doing 30% dimmed... Full balst they don't seem light, seems I have shadows. Any one have a PAR meter?
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Post by jasonandsarah on Sept 26, 2013 5:54:34 GMT -5
I was kinda interested in trying out a par meter to.but I also have a little shadowing but it's mostly because of my center brace.plus I like to have low light area's for lower light corals.the only lights I was looking at four not being bright enough is the 2 purple they seem very dim Idk if they're all like that?
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Post by jasonandsarah on Sept 26, 2013 5:58:50 GMT -5
Also everyone is different on the % it all depends on what you had for light before I believe because my corals looked like they wanted more light so I've been running mine at close to 50% white/multi and 55% blue/purple and slowly tiring up the blue a little more everyday and corals are doing awesome and loving it.I can see growth in less then a week
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Post by gotareef on Sept 26, 2013 8:06:12 GMT -5
Funny though I hung them and they don't seem that bright... im surprised people are doing 30% dimmed... Full balst they don't seem light, seems I have shadows. Any one have a PAR meter? how high above the tank are they hung? coming from someone replacing pc lighting this is the last thing I expected to hear!!! |
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Post by evilbuell on Sept 26, 2013 15:23:54 GMT -5
Funny though I hung them and they don't seem that bright... im surprised people are doing 30% dimmed... Full balst they don't seem light, seems I have shadows. Any one have a PAR meter? how high above the tank are they hung? coming from someone replacing pc lighting this is the last thing I expected to hear!!! The lights are 6" at the most off the water... I lifted them to see if the light would spread, but nope. Ill give it a month then sell them if its not feeling right. So if anyone is interested let me know. |
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Post by gotareef on Sept 26, 2013 16:56:51 GMT -5
my guess is that your used to the wasted light from your pc fixture. be carefull not to bleach your corals!!
mine are 10" off the water on my 180g, sps was bleaching in the sand at 60% power 24" deep!
you can try and take optics off then you will get 120 degree optics instead of the 90 degree.
you can go to the reefbreeders site and see par levels.... (I sold him the par meter to design the lights)
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Post by seamonkey84 on Sept 29, 2013 1:11:08 GMT -5
I don't have these fixtures, but with my led bulbs, the tank looks 30-40% dimmer than it use to with T5; once I found the right brightness (mounting height in my case) for my corals and nems.
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Post by jasonandsarah on Oct 2, 2013 9:28:58 GMT -5
I'm still very curious to know if anyone else had noticed that the 2 purple lights in the center of the light are very dim? They seem to give off very little light and it's like that on both my fixtures.I've seen other led fixtures of this type but different maker that the purple is much brighter and don't understand why these aren't?
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Post by gotareef on Oct 2, 2013 10:10:06 GMT -5
they are the uv bulbs
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Post by jasonandsarah on Oct 2, 2013 11:11:44 GMT -5
I understand there Uv in color but from what I've read led's don't have the capability to produce true Uv light like what's in a Uv sterilizer. Ssi Idk if that's completely true or not but I didn't know if there was a reason they were so dim or if it was just mine that do it? Not a big deal to me really just wanting to know and if like to know if what I've read is true about the Uv light in led's?
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Post by evilbuell on Oct 7, 2013 7:58:27 GMT -5
replacement glass came in.....
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Post by gotareef on Oct 7, 2013 8:36:35 GMT -5
sweet!!
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Any thoughts on this? I have a pic at home of the one with the crack