Anyone have a 48" T5 fixture in blacksburg?

[xcorallusx]

I have been having trouble with some bulbs ive ordered and the replacements arent working either so I would like to test them on another fixture to see if its not just me.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1848869

 

[ade]

What fixture do you have? Is it just one or more bulb that are not firing ?

 

[xcorallusx]

Its a retrofit that I got from joenels in richmond and it came with two actinic bulbs but they were reaching a year on them so I ordered 2 ati actinics from aquacave. They sent me out two that didnt work, they were lit up on the ends but not in the middle. They sent out replacements and they are doing the same thing. All I can think of is that the shipment from ati was bad. My setup still fires up the GLO and Giessman fine, and even a cheap home depot bulb.

 

[coolfish5]

I have a glo T5HO fixture if you need to test out the bulbs we can do that some day.

 

[xcorallusx]

Got the bulbs working, the guy said they needed to burn in so I left them on for 15 minutes and the lit up fine. Do all t5's do this? I kinda like the blue that the giesman put out, these are kinda purple/pink.