Apollo Reef LED SolarBlast Dimable Review

It's funny that you posted this because my lights when off and I turn them on manually they light up to the max 100, then when I cut them off they dim down turn off then make a flash... I always wondered if we can do a storm mode I will try this and see how t goes...
 
Well it works just tried it. It does come close to it... Pretty cool.. and it doesn't freak out the fish. like I've seen with other storm modes
 
ive ben able to do lighting for over 4 years and its cool for about a month than sit next to it when u have a head ache
 
Tank2379 said:
Well it works just tried it. It does come close to it... Pretty cool.. and it doesn't freak out the fish. like I've seen with other storm modes
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It's a nice little novelty which really serves no purpose other than to show off. Now at least you can say your leds can do it too.
 
mrbncal said:
5 week update - I have not added t-5 yet as I am trying to be patient and let the led light work its magic. I dont mind the look at mid day as its very close to what my old bank of 3 - 150DE MH looked like running Reeflux 12K bulbs. I just got sploiled when I was running all t-5 's with the constant "pop" that t-5' give. So still no bright orange 'pop' at mid-day but its ok. I got to 90% blue and 45% white and a millie started to bleach. It has very little color now and minimal pe. So today I backed off the blues to 80% and upped the whites to 55%.

light cycle is now:

BLUES -
on at 1030
full on at 230
full off at 530
off at 1030

WHITES -
on at 1100
full on at 300
full off at 500
off at 1000

So from about 8:00pm on things start to come alive with glow as the blues take over. This is fine as this is when I am usually looking at it. Growth is great and I have not found anything that does not like the new light.
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Week 6:
Well I have completely changed this, so much for patience, lol. I am now running the "full on" part of the cycle for 7.5 and 7 hours(Blue / white). But I have adjusted the two channels to an appearance that I like. This resulted in a percentage that is less than what most of you are running; blues - 7.5v or 62.5 %, whites - 2.5v or 21%. Gonna try this for awhile to see if this causes any gains or losses in growth or color. I may bump these percentages up as needed as long as the color is something that "looks" good to me. Which for me is kind of like a "Radium look".

Results as of today consisted of bigger LPS expansion. Much like they did when it was all T5's. I had really nice sps color with T5 but some of the blues left since changing and two-colored colonies haved darkened to just a purple. My thinking on this change is that the duration is not long enough. So I am going to replicate the T5 deal I had going on before. We'll see what happens.
 
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Hey guys I love this lights I have them connected to my Apex and I dont know if its normal when the blues dim or ramp down they go to about 5% and they turn off i have them on my settings to ramp down from 70 to 0 shouldnt they dim all the way down to nothing? thanks for your help.
 
cgh38 said:
Hey guys I love this lights I have them connected to my Apex and I dont know if its normal when the blues dim or ramp down they go to about 5% and they turn off i have them on my settings to ramp down from 70 to 0 shouldnt they dim all the way down to nothing? thanks for your help.
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The meanwell drivers used inside these can only go down to 5%.
 
bhazard, I set up the profile tonight for "storm mode" and it worked. It's just not a sudden on/off and think is likely due to what I earlier noted about the capacitors but still is kind of different.

chg38, I just dim down to 5% since that's the cut off. So go from 100 to 5, 80 to 5 etc since that's the minimal dimming you can go which is really faint. If the fixture did not have moonlights on a separate channel then I could see needing to go less than 5% but since it has moonlights 5% is low enough for our needs:)
 
Dustin you have yours over a 36 by 24 in area correct? Which way do you have it mounted over that area, the long edge running the 36 length or the 24 length? I would have thought the long edge to the 36 but I just got some feedback to run them parallel to the tank so I wanted your thoughts.
 
Hey Guys,

I picked up a dimmable UV5000 a couple of weeks ago. It's going over what has been a dark gap in my tank between 2 400w Radiums.

I am turning the intensity up slowly to not cause any damage. At the moment I am up to 60% Blue and 35% White and the output color is quite red.

How big of a difference should there be between the blue and white channel to get the 20k look ?

Thanks

Dave B
 
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