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That's the one I got to go over my frag tank. Shipped to my door for $175. No green or red though only white blue and violet. Love it. Some new SPS frags I got started to bleach out a little bit so I had to shuffle some stuff around but in the 2-3 weeks I've had it I have nice color and growth on some slimer, monti and tri color valida. Def good lights.
 
I have to say I am really liking my DIY lights from evergrow. Can't really take any good pictures yet though as they are over rubbermaids.
 
biecacka said:
bhazard why do you like them more than the nova a4?
corey
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Price/Performance. When the Nova was on sale when you picked it up at $199, that was the best price/performance wise.

You should know my all time favorite is the Nova, but mine is now a heavily modified 180w Cree/Luxeon monster.
 
Well big surprise Twilight will not do a grid pattern LED layout. Now I have to wait for my other light to come in so I can send them both back for a refund. I think I will wait for everglow to come out with their light that has a built-in controller.
 
Zoanut said:
Nope, it was all done through Paypal.
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Mine was done through paypal and I got a tracking number and photos of my lights working. That was the on the 27th, 5 days after I paid for them, just prior to them obviously being shipped.
I have nothing but good things to say with my dealings with Lyn at Twilight.

I havent received my lights yet, touch wood.
 
mlott132 said:
Well big surprise Twilight will not do a grid pattern LED layout. Now I have to wait for my other light to come in so I can send them both back for a refund. I think I will wait for everglow to come out with their light that has a built-in controller.
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I ordered 10 warm white and 10 cool white (wanted neutral white but couldn't find them) bridgelux leds from lederaa that should come in a few weeks. Once they're soldered in I'll show you the best pattern to fix the lights if you cant get an exchange or refund. If its like ebay, you'll probably have to pay the return shipping. It would probably be cheaper to just add the better leds in, and possibly add more whites into the blue channel, because the drivers and controller work pretty well. They were $1 each.

http://www.lederaa.com/bulk-20pc-x-...hite-white-lamp-light-high-power-chip-220-lm/

Sorry for pushing the Twilights before getting them. I didn't think they would screw up the lights that badly, and no other fixture has a controller (yet) at that price point.
 
Those of you who ordered controllers, what are you going to do if the controllers start to fail? I'd be worried about that.
 
bhazard451 said:
I ordered 10 warm white and 10 cool white (wanted neutral white but couldn't find them) bridgelux leds from lederaa that should come in a few weeks. Once they're soldered in I'll show you the best pattern to fix the lights if you cant get an exchange or refund. If its like ebay, you'll probably have to pay the return shipping. It would probably be cheaper to just add the better leds in, and possibly add more whites into the blue channel, because the drivers and controller work pretty well. They were $1 each.

http://www.lederaa.com/bulk-20pc-x-...hite-white-lamp-light-high-power-chip-220-lm/

Sorry for pushing the Twilights before getting them. I didn't think they would screw up the lights that badly, and no other fixture has a controller (yet) at that price point.
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Lyn has given me two options.

1. They will send me replacement LEDs to modify my existing light to my liking.

2. They will send me a new PCB with the B:W of 1:1 setup as I want.

I am thinking that option 2 will give me the best chance to get the light the way I want it, but would like some feedback.
 
Moorish_Idol said:
bhazard451, do you use those Evergrow lights on our tank? What are your PAR readings?
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I currently have an a4 running over a 12g nano, so I just bought a PAR meter to help me get my levels right so I dont fry my corals. When it comes in I will post the PAR levels on my tank.
 
I will be running my D120 On My 29G biocube and was thinking of putting a glass canopy on the tank to keep the evaporation down. Do you think it would cause any issues?
 
kingfisher62 said:
I will be running my D120 On My 29G biocube and was thinking of putting a glass canopy on the tank to keep the evaporation down. Do you think it would cause any issues?
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The lights run very cool so you will not need evaporation to keep the temperature down. Not sure what the loss in light will be from the glass but I run mine (2 over a 90g replacing 600++ wats of hm/T5)) at maybe 55-60% so you should be able to compensate.

On a related note that only a reefer will understand. Couple of hours after getting them up and running something so strange happened that I could not believe my eyes! I have no way of explaining this in any other way than that it must be something super natural. My heater is haunted! There is a strange orange light that I have NEVER seen before that keeps going on!
 
nynick said:
The lights run very cool so you will not need evaporation to keep the temperature down. Not sure what the loss in light will be from the glass but I run mine (2 over a 90g replacing 600++ wats of hm/T5)) at maybe 55-60% so you should be able to compensate.

On a related note that only a reefer will understand. Couple of hours after getting them up and running something so strange happened that I could not believe my eyes! I have no way of explaining this in any other way than that it must be something super natural. My heater is haunted! There is a strange orange light that I have NEVER seen before that keeps going on!
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Haha. This seems to happen more often without metal halides for some reason. I blame Obama.
 
mlott132 said:
Well big surprise Twilight will not do a grid pattern LED layout. Now I have to wait for my other light to come in so I can send them both back for a refund. I think I will wait for everglow to come out with their light that has a built-in controller.
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I just heard from Sunny that end of August is the target date for release.
 
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