Sharkman999
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Do you hVe the red and greens? I know I've read it somewhere but I have ledzeal progs going around in my head at night I've read so much!!
Bought new led light fixture from China.
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I'll have a look at it tonight and see what I can come up with, but the base data is simple somewhere like the barrier reef has an average of 12 hours sunlight per day, and thanks to the plethora of solar power modelling sites these days you can see that there are 2 peaks during a 4 hour period between 10am and 2pm.
Getting to the peaks is actually pretty close to a straight line so what this means is we can break the day up into 3 main periods of 4 hours, Ramp up, Peak and ramp down, and if truly anal then you could include a slightly more intense peak between 11am and 1pm.
But now to the variances, because in this particular instance we are playing god, we need to first decide a few things, such as what time do we no longer want any real light in our tank, from there we work backwards for 12 hours to get the start of the sequence.
the next thing you need to work out, is what your preferred colour spectrum during the peak period is, now this doesn't have to consider the total intensity, we will get to that later, but you need to work your perfect blend out at peak, once you have this you need to record each channel as this will be important later.
Ok so finally what we need to do is work out our starting point for new lights (work within the peak period), I created a spreadsheet for my situation and will tweak it as I go, you need to choose what works best for you, but once you have your correct blend for peak and the right intensity for change over then the rest can be pretty easy, especially if your dimmer system is automatic and if you let your system do the work you only need 4 or 6 set points (unless of course you then want special hues of blue at night)
Time/Set points would be like this but mapped out to applicable times for your aquarium world, in my case my 6am will be 10am so that my tank is lit through to 10pm
set point 1 6am
Set pt 2 10am (Start of main peak)
Set Point 3 11am
Set point 4 1pm
Set point 5 2pm
Set Point 6 6pm
if using an automated system you should to set your peak points as the same to maintain your peak.
Gillguy
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Nice write up but I'm assuming that your set point 1 and 6 are at 0%. Correct? because if not your lights will not turn off.
Gillguy, lets just say they are now :headwally:
they did in fact turn off and then through the night started ramping up again so they were at their 6am values :headwalls:
working on a more automated spreadsheet to at least create the starting point for each channel
they did in fact turn off and then through the night started ramping up again so they were at their 6am values :headwalls:
working on a more automated spreadsheet to at least create the starting point for each channel
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Frustration trying to mount the lamps on my tank. My initial though was just to use the
bracket that came with the lamps but my tank is exactly 36 inches and the lamp is just the
same size causing the bracket to overlap a bit. I wonder if I should have ordered the S150
Then wanted to build a canopy but wasn’t sure how that may look as I have high ceilings,
my second though was to mount from the back with some aluminum .
I recently came across this lamps made by Ill magic. They have a cool acrylic stand for their lamps
I’m having a friend of mine laser cut a set of this to fit the lamps. Let’s see how that look.
bracket that came with the lamps but my tank is exactly 36 inches and the lamp is just the
same size causing the bracket to overlap a bit. I wonder if I should have ordered the S150
Then wanted to build a canopy but wasn’t sure how that may look as I have high ceilings,
my second though was to mount from the back with some aluminum .
I recently came across this lamps made by Ill magic. They have a cool acrylic stand for their lamps
I’m having a friend of mine laser cut a set of this to fit the lamps. Let’s see how that look.
MRCYCS805
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]Heres how i hung mine i didnt like the long cable from the ceiling or the big clips for the brackets so i used a aquatic life t5 hanging kit i had from a previous t5 fixture and mounted the shelf in between the tank in the ceiling i drilled straight threw the center for the cables of the stock brackets attached to the light and pulled cable threw and clamped the ends using stainless steel cable instead of the plastic coat one supplied and bam here it is
aquarist2013
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]Heres how i hung mine i didnt like the long cable from the ceiling or the big clips for the brackets so i used a aquatic life t5 hanging kit i had from a previous t5 fixture and mounted the shelf in between the tank in the ceiling i drilled straight threw the center for the cables of the stock brackets attached to the light and pulled cable threw and clamped the ends using stainless steel cable instead of the plastic coat one supplied and bam here it is
That is a very impressive set up!
Some where Gillguy mention that every scene has to start with 0% and end with 0% otherwise they will turn on when not expected.
this is what I did when I was playing wit the set up. The 1% on channel 3 is for moon light
L1
6:30 AM 0% 1
8:00 AM 35% 2
9:00 AM 45% 3
10:00 AM 65% 4
11:30 AM 75% 5
4:30 PM 35% 6
6:30 PM 35% 7
8:00 PM 0% 8
L2
8:00 AM 0% 1
9:00 AM 35% 2
9:00 AM 45% 3
10:00 AM 55% 4
12:00 PM 90% 5
4:00 PM 85% 6
6:30 PM 55% 7
8:00 PM 0% 8
L3
6:30 AM 0% 1
8:00 AM 20% 2
9:00 AM 35% 3
10:00 AM 55% 4
11:30 75% 5
4:30 PM 35% 6
6:30 PM 1% 7
12:00 AM 0% 8
L4
9:00 AM 0% 1
11:00 AM 10% 2
11:30 AM 35% 3
12:00 PM 45% 4
4:00 PM 35% 5
4:30 PM 25% 6
5:30 PM 10% 7
6:00 PM 0% 8
Sharkman999
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I have one red and one green on each light went with 120 optics on them, using the slide in brackets I get a little bit of spotlighting off the red, but that should go when I raise it.
I have made some changes to my settings, I needed to account for the fact the last lights I had were cree with 75 degree optics, so even though there were less diodes I would have been getting greater par than I had originally calculated, corals are responding better already after two days.
Have left some extra 0% settings on both ends to give me ease change, anyway so far so good.
Sharkman999
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You must spend half your day changing settings mate!!!
MRCYCS805
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I hope the new controller has more time settings heres what i got from kevin when asking him
Yes, we are about to release the upgraded controller with the main new features as bellow:
*
1. Made with all aluminum* from previous iron, looks more solid and feel better to operate
2. The biggest upgrade :Original 1 DIY*setting to 3* DIY setting can applied to different time period*or to switch anytime for customers
3. Add Strong*Cloud and Flash mode (There is ON/ OFF, off is the normal cloud or flash)*, when one circle is done will automatically back to sunrise/sunset mode.
*
It*will be*compatible with the Malibu S*, but not released officially since still in last testing .
Yes, we are about to release the upgraded controller with the main new features as bellow:
*
1. Made with all aluminum* from previous iron, looks more solid and feel better to operate
2. The biggest upgrade :Original 1 DIY*setting to 3* DIY setting can applied to different time period*or to switch anytime for customers
3. Add Strong*Cloud and Flash mode (There is ON/ OFF, off is the normal cloud or flash)*, when one circle is done will automatically back to sunrise/sunset mode.
*
It*will be*compatible with the Malibu S*, but not released officially since still in last testing .
I run them for a week or so and tweak to get it how I like it and then try another. Its been good for getting the lights bedded in Kinda like an ipod on shuffle and good for confusing the Mrs!
I like the idea of point 2 but do wish that they would include the ability to insert cloud/flash into the DIY mode. Now that would be something interesting
I have the RED and instead of green I added an Extra white.
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