AI Hydra Settings Thread

Orcus Varuna said:
So on xmas eve I was at the LFS which was just the owner and I for about 2 hrs haha. Over his main frag display he has Radion G3's on one side and Hydra 52HD's on the other. Since it was dead we busted out the PAR meter and got to work. He already runs sps AB+ on the Radions and our PAR readings backed up the WWC study at 24" AWL 12" BWL which was about 300 PAR. The profile I made when loaded onto the hydras was fairly close about 300 PAR under the same conditions but the visible color was a bit "whiter" in appearance (It was a very slight difference). Next we dropped the Hydra's to 13" AWL because I have noticed what appeared to be burning on a few of my lower light demand corals (Birdsnest in particular). What we found is when dropping to this height par jumped to nearly 400 at 12" depth. After messing with the settings for a good bit we settled on reducing white, red, green by about 30% and came up with a 12" AWL profile that I am now currently running on my tank. He is keeping the original profile running on his tank as am I the new on mine so I will update in a month or so with our results.I will say however that judging by the PAR readings we gathered and the visual spectral comparison observed between the radions and hydras I would put money on the fact that we will see similar results to the radions running sps AB+. Attached are the new links to both profiles. Happy reefing!!!!! AI SPS AB+ 12" AWL ( https://1drv.ms/u/s!Akco_cmvvLNrgZhvyvRF4Kf5orQL7w ). AI SPS AB+ 24" AWL ( https://1drv.ms/u/s!Akco_cmvvLNrgZdjyvRF4Kf5orQL7w )


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Orcus Varuna said:
You have to manually move each point in the schedule ahead by 3 hrs. Unfortunately AI has not made this easy :/


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I have been using this profile for 2 months and have noticed great results. I only modified the start/end times and reduced the intensity a bit now ramping it up.
 
Cammunoz said:
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see where it says orginally posted by orcus click that




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Thanks. Are these settings for the original Hyrda light or another one? Are the settings different for the different lights?

Thanks!
 
rick4him said:
I tried to upload the file and it says "the version of these settings are incompatible."
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These settings are for the hydra and prime HD lights and can be adapted to the original 52/26 and prime with a bit of tweaking. As for the original hydra I think you might be getting too far from these lights to make the same leap unfortunately. I would attempt to dig up original hydra threads to get an idea of what people have or did run.


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Night lights

Night lights

I just setup using the light setup that has been posted. I was wanting to know about leaving the blue lights at 1% at night since I noticed that it goes dark at night. I like having a little light all night. Does that hurt the corals or fish. Thanks
 
Donduck73 said:
I just setup using the light setup that has been posted. I was wanting to know about leaving the blue lights at 1% at night since I noticed that it goes dark at night. I like having a little light all night. Does that hurt the corals or fish. Thanks
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No I don't believe it does affect anything. But at 1% what's the point?


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Ok, so I got my 2 52s set up yesterday through my laptop because I couldn't get them to connect through my phone. I didn't adjust anything just got them set up as parent and child. I set up a password as well. Today I opened up the window and it's asking me for my password and when I put it in it doesn't log in as if I entered the wrong password? has anyone seen this? Do I need to reset the lights and start over?
 
In regards to the hydra 26/52 (NON HD). Maybe this has been answered, maybe it hasn't but this is a long arse thread. I'm seeing a lot of information in regards to the apex integration. I have an apex but not willing to shell out the cash for a new module when I already have the AI controller (not the director). How does the apex presets (14k,20k etc) translate to individual slider settings on the controller? Is there a way for you guys to tell what individual color settings are at for 14k? or is it just a "trust what my apex is telling me" kind of thing? Seriously though. I'm looking for a solid 20k look and I'm finding the recommendations to be all over the place. Anybody with a good solid color recommendation? thanks in advance.
 
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