A little confused on brightness or intensity on Radion

[laserjim]

Ok, you have the yellow slider on the side of your schedule. Then you have your schedule. The yellow slider will say for instants 60% , but if you go over to your schedule it will say intensity 39%. Which is it ? To confuse things more ,if you look at the individual sliders, they can be at 100%. ??/?? Do You go by the yellow slider or the schedule intensity ?

 

[coqui1pr]

No one knows ? because i am asking myself the same question.

 

[davehead86]

The yellow slider is like the master override. It sets what percentage the light can be at. If you set it to 60% then that's the highest the light can go. The individual sliders set each led lines level of output. I like to set the light up at 100% on the yellow slider and then when I find what I like I set it down to the level I need in the tank.


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[Mark426]

I do it just the opposite of dave. I set the colors I like with the individual sliders and then set the overall intensity with the master slider (yellow). Easy to change the overall intensity to what is needed without changing the color/spectrum. I think this is the way its intended to be used.

That newest craze from Coral Lab is all blues at 100% and everything else at 25%. Intensity (yellow slider) at whatever you need for your tank. http://ecotechmarine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Ecotech_CoralLab_WP1.pdf

 

[EcoTech Support]

RE: A little confused on brightness or intensity on Radion

Each data point in the Radion schedule has a series of color channel values and a brightness value. The brightness value is applied as a multiplier to the color channel values. What is referred to as "Relative Intensity" or simply "Intensity" in EcoSmart Live is the result of the equation of the individual color channels multiplied by the brightness. Each color has its own spectrum contribution and is a factor in this equation.

The orange slider to the left of the Radion schedule controls the brightness value of all data points during the day (between start day and start night). So instead of going into each daytime data point and adjusting the brightness slider, you can accomplish the same result with one slider adjustment. We hope this helps.

 

[mic209]

Each data point in the Radion schedule has a series of color channel values and a brightness value. The brightness value is applied as a multiplier to the color channel values. What is referred to as "Relative Intensity" or simply "Intensity" in EcoSmart Live is the result of the equation of the individual color channels multiplied by the brightness. Each color has its own spectrum contribution and is a factor in this equation.

The orange slider to the left of the Radion schedule controls the brightness value of all data points during the day (between start day and start night). So instead of going into each daytime data point and adjusting the brightness slider, you can accomplish the same result with one slider adjustment. We hope this helps.

In the picture above, why does the orange slider read 60%, what does that 60% consist of? Why is it the if you change the Orange slider it will make all data points the same percentage? Let's say the original poster moved the orange slider to 80%, and decided he/she wanted to back to having the 2 data points on the outside a lower percentage, the orange slider is not what is used to make this change, right? I see a lot of people confused over the orange slider, what was Ecotechs intention on including that feature?

 

[bearpeidog]

Dang - I still don't understand

 

[mic209]

Dang - I still don't understand

For some reason I don't either! I wish ecotech would make a video explaining it. I work on airplane avionics for a living, so I don't think I'm that dumb, lol.

 

[new2mac]

Orange brightness slider to some extend works as a "master" brightness control. Let say colors are set like B 50%, R 45%, G 30% and orange slider is at 10%, in this case your Radion light intensity will be limited at 10% (despite individual colors set to higher values). Hope that make sense.

 

[mic209]

Orange brightness slider to some extend works as a "master" brightness control. Let say colors are set like B 50%, R 45%, G 30% and orange slider is at 10%, in this case your Radion light intensity will be limited at 10% (despite individual colors set to higher values). Hope that make sense.

I just learned not to touch it if I don't want all my data points the same intensity. Obviously there are a lot of confusion over it and a good video from ecotech would be great.

 

[Squidmotron]

Orange brightness slider to some extend works as a "master" brightness control. Let say colors are set like B 50%, R 45%, G 30% and orange slider is at 10%, in this case your Radion light intensity will be limited at 10% (despite individual colors set to higher values). Hope that make sense.

I really don't think you are correct. I think the color channels are relative to the overall intensity.

So, if the intensity is 10%, a blue of 50% would really be 5 and the red channel of 45% would be 4.5.

Otherwise, blue, red, and green would all be 10%.

 

[davehead86]

I really don't think you are correct. I think the color channels are relative to the overall intensity.

So, if the intensity is 10%, a blue of 50% would really be 5 and the red channel of 45% would be 4.5.

Otherwise, blue, red, and green would all be 10%.

This is correct.

 

[new2mac]

This is correct.

I agree with Squidmotron, sorry I did not explain it properly.

 

[rovster]

Wow guys this is simple. The slider on the left sets to overall intensity/power maximum or "ceiling" if you will. The points on the graph are relative to that. If your overall on the left is set is to 50% and you are running 12k which is all channels cranked to the max it will be 50%. Now as you start to decrease the channels on the right to tune your color you effectively are removing light hence the smaller percentage on the right.

So 50% on left with all channels on max = 50% on right.

So 50% on left with 20k = something less than 50% lol

Don't get caught up in numbers. Set the curve and data points to the color or spectrum you want and use the master slider to pump up the volume.....

 

[mic209]

Wow guys this is simple. The slider on the left sets to overall intensity/power maximum or "ceiling" if you will. The points on the graph are relative to that. If your overall on the left is set is to 50% and you are running 12k which is all channels cranked to the max it will be 50%. Now as you start to decrease the channels on the right to tune your color you effectively are removing light hence the smaller percentage on the right.

So 50% on left with all channels on max = 50% on right.

So 50% on left with 20k = something less than 50% lol

Don't get caught up in numbers. Set the curve and data points to the color or spectrum you want and use the master slider to pump up the volume.....

The problem with the orange/yellow master slider, if you touch it, it makes all your daytime points the exact same percentage. It was real annoying the first few times I messed with it to find out I would have to go back into each data point to get them back to the Different percentages I had them at throughout the day. IMO it has no usefulness unless you run all your data points at the same percentage throughout the day. I just learned not to touch it anymore.