pecan2phat
Active member
I own AI SOLs and Pacific Sun lamps.
The AIs are versatile enough for customization of color, intensity and ramping features right off of their wired controller. The Pacific Suns are the most controllable lamps out there and also software based but no stupid USB cord to communicate with the lamp, they are Bluetooth enabled so making a change is as easy as turning on your computer or droid tablet/phone.
Both are pretty specific in terms of what you want to change or add not like the Ecotech platform and both have lunar phases which something that seemed pretty simple isn't even on this costly product.
After being pretty frustrated, I downloaded Jon's graph and went and connected the lamp to program them. Now after 1 hour of day's end, 1 lamp lights up the royal blues at maybe 15% and the other is dark. Based on Jon's graph it looks like at 12 am, it should be at 0% so why one lamp lights up and not the other or both not being at 0% is why I feel this is harder then it should be for a supposedly well thought out lamp. Even better is last night I did the import and programing to the lamp and noticed that one panel of one lamp had some faintly lit blue emitters on but after playing with these all day I called it a night. Went to work and came back to see both lamps looking evenly lit and somewhat satisfied with the color and intensity of Jon's graph but the one that is lit up after midnight just makes me want to get rid of these lights.
Sorry for the rant
The AIs are versatile enough for customization of color, intensity and ramping features right off of their wired controller. The Pacific Suns are the most controllable lamps out there and also software based but no stupid USB cord to communicate with the lamp, they are Bluetooth enabled so making a change is as easy as turning on your computer or droid tablet/phone.
Both are pretty specific in terms of what you want to change or add not like the Ecotech platform and both have lunar phases which something that seemed pretty simple isn't even on this costly product.
After being pretty frustrated, I downloaded Jon's graph and went and connected the lamp to program them. Now after 1 hour of day's end, 1 lamp lights up the royal blues at maybe 15% and the other is dark. Based on Jon's graph it looks like at 12 am, it should be at 0% so why one lamp lights up and not the other or both not being at 0% is why I feel this is harder then it should be for a supposedly well thought out lamp. Even better is last night I did the import and programing to the lamp and noticed that one panel of one lamp had some faintly lit blue emitters on but after playing with these all day I called it a night. Went to work and came back to see both lamps looking evenly lit and somewhat satisfied with the color and intensity of Jon's graph but the one that is lit up after midnight just makes me want to get rid of these lights.
Sorry for the rant