I'm setting up a 93 gallon cube mixed reef tank. I have 2 nova a4s on my current tank. They seem to barely cover my 75 at 12" height. The 93 gallon is 30x30. I don't think the 2 would cover the tank unless I mount them high, which then I would have light spillage. The lights have 90 degree optics on them now. I was thinking of adding a tek 24" 4 bulb to the tank also. Should I add the tek? I already have it. Any help would be appreciated thanks
Thanks a lot!I did all my dealings with Helen as well (a 10 person, 24 light group buy) and she was super! If I emailed at night while she was at work (13 hrs ahead of me in Florida) and I'd get a reply is under an hour.
Andy, my shipping info says the IT2080 weighs 9.5kg which is just under 21lbs and that is the shipping weight with a box and packing materials included. I found metal shelf brackets and screw in wall anchors at HD that can carry a 75lb load and I have one on either side on my IT2040 (14lbs) and D120's (9lbs). My IT2080's are hanging in a canopy.
10K is very close to natural sunlight. Some 10K MH are a clean white and some have a slight yellow tint like natural sunlight. There are a lot of 14K & 15K MH bulbs around and they have a bluish tint to them. 20K bulbs are typically (but not always) much more blue. Those are the common colors of MH bulbs. If you go looking for examples of a Kelvin color temperature chart, you'll find most of them stop at 10K as 'sky blue'. Here is a link that at least gives some higher number examples:
http://www.vvme.com/page.html?chapter=1&id=34
That looks good. So do u have to have the brackets attached to studs in the wall?
Glad to help. I was surprised when I went looking for some helpful image that all the Kelvin color charts stop at 8000K or 10,000K and don't get into the 14K and 20K we always talk about in MH bulb colors. Anybody ever find a good color chart that goes to 20K?Thanks Ron...this was very helpful:beer:
Thanks Ron. So you would trust 2 brackets with using the wall anchors to hold 1 it2080?
Wow! What a thread. I've read most of this, and Have a couple of questions.
I have a 220, 72 x 24 x 30, and I am looking at doing 3 of the RB value fixtures.
How does that sound?
Should I do the 90 degree optics?
Will this have full coverage, no shadowing (with exception of slight shadow from two middle braces)?