Sharpimage
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I have had the zues series on my tank for 6 weeks or so. I am quite happy with them. Everything seems to be growing nicely. I have them at 35% for my softie tank. I feel they would be more than powerful enough for sps.
Bought new led light fixture from China.
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Altohombre
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How is the disco effect on them? Any dead spots?
Sharpimage
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No disco effect, no dead spots. I have 3 mounted about 12 inch's above the waterline
ProteusReef
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On your 120 gallon? Any supplemental lighting?
Sharpimage
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I have a 300dd. Measures 6x3x27 inch's. I have 3 lights 5 foot x 6 inch's. So it is pretty covered. Kevin at ledzeal recommended 2 lights
Altohombre
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Are you able to slowly ramp the lights from sunrise to peak then to sunset with the Zeus lights? Or is it a drastic switch like my T5 2 switch unit does?
Sharpimage
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You can ramp it up and down. There are 4 channels. Rb, whites, red and green , and rb/another blue. It goes through their aquazealer app. It is a little bit of a pain to set up and use the app, but I did the programming a few times and left it alone.
aquarist2013
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I am thinking get a 4ft zeus unit for my new tank, I did not see much pictures yet for this new ledzeal model, do you have some pictures of your tank with the zeus? Thanks :spin1::spin1:
Sharpimage
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here are 3 sets of Zeus over the 300DD
https://www.flickr.com/gp/155004613@N07/vPTD53
Hopefully you can get to the pics
https://www.flickr.com/gp/155004613@N07/vPTD53
Hopefully you can get to the pics
aquarist2013
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Thank you , it':thumbsup:s a very nice setup with all of 3 units.
Altohombre
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Looks great! Any complaints at all with them?
aquarist2013
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The Zeus is about 6" wide while Malibu is 8". Not sure will it be sufficient for my 24" wide tank.
Sharpimage
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I am very happy with them. I like the spread, the look, the pricing. I am sure Radions are better and do more cool stuff, but I would have needed 6 units and was cost prohibitive
Dan
Dan
Very nice! Have you got pretty narrow lenses fitted? Even at that height, I can see the lighting focus areas in the water which look pretty vertical.
How is the fanless designing working out for cooling?
Sharpimage
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It has 90 degree lenses. The spread is very good. The fanless is nice. The units are not hot to the touch. I do have 3 large openings above them where my mh went, about 16" circle, so that probably helps. I picked up a parneter and will be doing reading later today
Cool! It will be interesting to see the PAR readings. I think spectrum has always been LEDZeal's strong point over outright power, but will be great to see.
ProteusReef
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Any updates on par/pur?
Sharpimage
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My lights are about 12" above the water line. At 100% I am getting 421 at the water surface and 208 at 27" deep
I have owned a Malibu S200+ for a year. I recently ordered another 2x Malibu S200 lights for my frag tanks as well as a Zeus light. I haven't hooked the Zeus up yet but I did make heavy modifcations to the LED layout.
Great light except for the blues they use. The default blue is a more sky blue at 470nm which tends to not bring out those really deep colors in coral. So I opted for way more Royal Blue, Violet, and expanding the blue spectrum with some cyan as well. I also eliminated red and green for a more diverse white spectrum.
Personally I love the configuration I did way more than stock, but anyways pics for all.
OLD MALIBU S200+ DEFAULT LED CONFIGURATION
AFTER MALIBU S200+ MODIFIED LED CONFIGURATION
As you can see it looks more clear after with less emphasis on the bright blue and focusing more on the Royal Blue and Violet with a slight touch of UV to help some of the coral really pop. In the before pic you might be able to see the red and green LED independent and a little stronger on the areas they shine. Now thats been eliminated. Anyone who wants my configuration it is below:
DEFAULT LAYOUT
MY MODIFIED LAYOUT
Hope this helps anyone considering this light. I have had no problem with any of them, and I have one over a year old still runs strong. These are not the cheap black boxes you would buy on ebay. They are a much higher quality product using meanwell drivers. I will gladly post pictures of the guts of the unit for anyone who wants it for proof, including the meanwell driver. :hb2:
Great light except for the blues they use. The default blue is a more sky blue at 470nm which tends to not bring out those really deep colors in coral. So I opted for way more Royal Blue, Violet, and expanding the blue spectrum with some cyan as well. I also eliminated red and green for a more diverse white spectrum.
Personally I love the configuration I did way more than stock, but anyways pics for all.
OLD MALIBU S200+ DEFAULT LED CONFIGURATION
AFTER MALIBU S200+ MODIFIED LED CONFIGURATION
As you can see it looks more clear after with less emphasis on the bright blue and focusing more on the Royal Blue and Violet with a slight touch of UV to help some of the coral really pop. In the before pic you might be able to see the red and green LED independent and a little stronger on the areas they shine. Now thats been eliminated. Anyone who wants my configuration it is below:
DEFAULT LAYOUT
MY MODIFIED LAYOUT
Hope this helps anyone considering this light. I have had no problem with any of them, and I have one over a year old still runs strong. These are not the cheap black boxes you would buy on ebay. They are a much higher quality product using meanwell drivers. I will gladly post pictures of the guts of the unit for anyone who wants it for proof, including the meanwell driver. :hb2:
aquarist2013
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Your tank looks just amazing with the customized LED configuration, more uniform spread and light distribution. Maybe I should try this one as well :lmao::lmao:
