Bought new led light fixture from China.

[itz frank]

Interesting. With my lights so close to the water due to the lid, I'm struggling for coverage at the edges.



I'm looking at mounting to the underside of the lid (gaining additional 50mm distance to the water) and adding some shims to the lid to raise it (gaining 25mm extra distance).



Else I will potentially be looking to add either another LEDZeal unit (to run one in front of the other) or adding the T5's in a similar arrangement to you.

I think adding the t5 is probably your better option. That's how I have mine and everything in the tank is super happy.


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[yacn]

I finally ordered my light from Ledzeal 2 days ago. I hope it's everything I've read about here. Worse case scenario is that I go back and use my MH/VHO combo....and sell the LED light at a discount.

I just noticed in the pics RickyB posted....there is the disco affect on the sand....which is something I don't want. I plan on using 60 degree lenses since my tank is 30" deep and I'll be hanging the light about 8 to 12 inches above the water....120 lenses on green and red LED's. I guess we'll see.

I'm not interested in hooking up T5's in addition to my LED's and hope I don't have to do that. Although I like the workmanship BIGCYC did installing T5's to his S400 LED light! Nice Job!

 

[rickyb]

I just noticed in the pics RickyB posted....there is the disco affect on the sand....which is something I don't want.

You won't see the disco effect, when I took the shots, there was no water movement. I didn't even noticed it until you mentioned! lol

 

[itz frank]

You won't see the disco effect, when I took the shots, there was no water movement. I didn't even noticed it until you mentioned! lol

You'll see it. I have a lot of water movement AND T5 and you can still see it.


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[yacn]

You'll see it. I have a lot of water movement AND T5 and you can still see it.

I'm really hoping the lenses I chose, and hanging the light about a foot above the water will help eliminate that look.

I'm going to kick myself for buying these LED's w/o actually seeing them in use in person. Although I have a ton of live rock and not much white substrate for the light to hit directly to show that affect. Looks like it mostly shows up on the substrate....can't really tell from the pics.

Kevin told me my light is made and will be shipped to me any day now. Waiting for shipping tracking email.

 

[itz frank]

I'm really hoping the lenses I chose, and hanging the light about a foot above the water will help eliminate that look.

I'm going to kick myself for buying these LED's w/o actually seeing them in use in person. Although I have a ton of live rock and not much white substrate for the light to hit directly to show that affect. Looks like it mostly shows up on the substrate....can't really tell from the pics.

Kevin told me my light is made and will be shipped to me any day now. Waiting for shipping tracking email.

I can see mine on the rock work. But that's really just where the Reds are.


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[BIGCYCS805]

You'll see it. I have a lot of water movement AND T5 and you can still see it.


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What degree lenses do you have on it and how high is your fixture and how deep is your tank it's almost sounding like you need a different lens I have 90 degree lenses online except for the Reds and greens which have 120 and my lights about 10 inches off the surface and I see no Disco I have 2 rw-8 on else mode and a 1-inch squid running my return which is a DC 12000 jebao so I have a lot of switching current

 

[yacn]

60 degree lenses
120 degree on green and red only
hanging light 8 to 12 inches above tank
tank is 30 inches deep

I'm probably a week or 2 away from receiving my light....I'll report back my results....and probably reach out how to program the controller...LOL

I read it can be a bit of a pain to program the wired controller....but seems like some of you have that figured out and were able to offer help

 

[rickyb]

I don't have any reds or greens on my fixtures. No disco.

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[psr119]

Hey guys, I am looking to get the S400 lighting. I checked with a company through alibaba portal and they quoted me $690 for the light, wireless module and hanging brackets. Is this what you guys paid? If any of plan to order please let me know. Maybe we can get a discount.

 

[yacn]

Hey guys, I am looking to get the S400 lighting. I checked with a company through alibaba portal and they quoted me $690 for the light, wireless module and hanging brackets. Is this what you guys paid? If any of plan to order please let me know. Maybe we can get a discount.

That's in the same vicinity I just paid for mine....I added some extra LED's and lenses to my order

Why go through alibaba....go to their website and email Kevin....that's what I did and many others on this thread

 

[psr119]

That's in the same vicinity I just paid for mine....I added some extra LED's and lenses to my order

Why go through alibaba....go to their website and email Kevin....that's what I did and many others on this thread

I have reached out to ledzeal, but have not got a response. I will update this thread once i get more information. Thanks Ycan.

 

[Rikster71]

Here I go again

Here I go again

Hi guys, about to build a new tank, previous tank was a 4ft running 2 S120's.

New tank will be 1900mm x 700mm x 700mm.

I am thinking of going with either 3 x S150 or 2 x S200, I will likely go with the plus series, is anyone running similar depth/width tank and if so how are the LEDs going with penetration and spread, should I get them to install Cree LEDs?

Was not overly happy with par reading at the bottom of my 4x2x2

Thanks,

Rick

 

[yacn]

Hi guys, about to build a new tank, previous tank was a 4ft running 2 S120's.

New tank will be 1900mm x 700mm x 700mm.

I am thinking of going with either 3 x S150 or 2 x S200, I will likely go with the plus series, is anyone running similar depth/width tank and if so how are the LEDs going with penetration and spread, should I get them to install Cree LEDs?

Was not overly happy with par reading at the bottom of my 4x2x2

Thanks,

Rick

I never knew installing Cree LED's was an option you can request.

Just received my light this past Friday. Looks great! I'm heading out of town for a week so I'm going to wait to install it. I'm a bit confused how to program the lights with the wired controller. If anyone has any advise I'd appreciate it. I'm going to go thru this long thread and try to find info

Thanks

 

[Rikster71]

I never knew installing Cree LED's was an option you can request.

Just received my light this past Friday. Looks great! I'm heading out of town for a week so I'm going to wait to install it. I'm a bit confused how to program the lights with the wired controller. If anyone has any advise I'd appreciate it. I'm going to go thru this long thread and try to find info

Thanks

The Cree option does delay the build as they have to order them in from memory, but the longer I wait for Kevin to come back to me the more I think about just stick with whatever the best he is using from his standard range and using correct optics for penetration.



Programming is not that hard it is just tie consuming, you just scroll through to setup, and enter your start and end points, if you scroll back through the pages you will see some time settings. one big trick to remember is that each channel requires an on an off time, whilst it seems obvious many people in the past forget to program them in for every channel and then scracth their head why their white channel is still on LOL.

so figure when you definitely want all channels off from and too and the set the first reading to 0 on each channel for example 8am now you work out what you want your strength to be by say 11am which might be 40%, so for each channel you program that next step. Your next change you might want to get to 70% in an hour, so you set each channel to 70 at 12pm then you might have the next step to increase all to 95% by 3pm,

then you might want to start ramping down, say back to 70 at 5.00pm, 50 at 6.30, by 8pm you may want all but you blue off as an example so set those 3 channels to 0 at 8pm and then for your last bits of blue you might have another step down at 9pm to 10% and 10pm to 0%

Use your own times that work best for you, not all channels have to have the same % at each step change, but I would suggest to keep all the timings of each step the same, it is just much easier when you need to ramp up and down and change your settings, you get 8 step changes for each channel so in some cases where you want to keep say channel three constant across two step changes just set it at the same number.

From my use this worked the best, I would also suggest keeping an excel spreadsheet of all you settings, each time you decide to change it copy the sheet and paste a new one and the make the changes and record the date from and to at the top, that way when you realise the settings aren't really working you can always find your way back to the most optimal.

 

[jonnyu]

Here's a little sneak peek at something I've been wanting to do for awhile I really like the coloration and everything that I have with my LEDZeal Malibu S400. but coming from T5 I miss a little bit of the coloration I used to get with ATI bulbs so I have acquired an LEt miro t5 kit 60 inch 2 bulb and made some adjustments to it.
I like how my light floats above my tank and didn't want to lose that to a canopy so I rigged up some L Channel aluminum to hold the t5 end caps and mount it right to the light itself with some paint and some patience I like how it came out hopefully I'll have it wired up and fired up this weekend

This looks great can you post a couple pics with bright light so I can see the details.

 

[BIGCYCS805]

Here's a couple ended up taking out the Reds as I was getting too much purple with red I replace them with 4500k it looks nice now the t5 really brighten things up and I did a good amount of par

 

[aquarist2013]

Done deal all wired up and light lowered all i have to do is adjust my colors to my t5 to get the right look for my eyes and call it good it really brightened things up so far

It is really something ,a Hydrid LED&T5, the colors looks amazing throught the tank!!Where did place the ballast for the t5?

 

[yacn]

The Cree option does delay the build as they have to order them in from memory, but the longer I wait for Kevin to come back to me the more I think about just stick with whatever the best he is using from his standard range and using correct optics for penetration.



Programming is not that hard it is just tie consuming, you just scroll through to setup, and enter your start and end points, if you scroll back through the pages you will see some time settings. one big trick to remember is that each channel requires an on an off time, whilst it seems obvious many people in the past forget to program them in for every channel and then scracth their head why their white channel is still on LOL.

so figure when you definitely want all channels off from and too and the set the first reading to 0 on each channel for example 8am now you work out what you want your strength to be by say 11am which might be 40%, so for each channel you program that next step. Your next change you might want to get to 70% in an hour, so you set each channel to 70 at 12pm then you might have the next step to increase all to 95% by 3pm,

then you might want to start ramping down, say back to 70 at 5.00pm, 50 at 6.30, by 8pm you may want all but you blue off as an example so set those 3 channels to 0 at 8pm and then for your last bits of blue you might have another step down at 9pm to 10% and 10pm to 0%

Use your own times that work best for you, not all channels have to have the same % at each step change, but I would suggest to keep all the timings of each step the same, it is just much easier when you need to ramp up and down and change your settings, you get 8 step changes for each channel so in some cases where you want to keep say channel three constant across two step changes just set it at the same number.

From my use this worked the best, I would also suggest keeping an excel spreadsheet of all you settings, each time you decide to change it copy the sheet and paste a new one and the make the changes and record the date from and to at the top, that way when you realise the settings aren't really working you can always find your way back to the most optimal.

Thank you Rikster.

Chompin at the bit to hook this light up. Traveling out of town all week and didn't want to set it up unless I was able to be home in case something went wrong with the programming.

Right now I turn on my Super Actinic VHO at 11am and off at 11pm. Then I have (3) 250 Watt MH that go on at 1pm and off at 9pm. I stagger each MH by half hour on and off.

Hoping to do something similar with the LED.

 

[BIGCYCS805]

It is really something ,a Hydrid LED&T5, the colors looks amazing throught the tank!!Where did place the ballast for the t5?

Thank you the ballast is mounted on the Shelf that the light is hanging from here's a picture from a little bit farther away

the cable on the left is for the T5 that goes up to the ballast and the cable on the right is the one for the light power have the wireless controller so it's only one wire