Help with settings on radion

[Reefer PT]

My Corals have been browning up so I know they want more light so I was using radiant color and switched to high growth settings and even though I set the same intensity on the slider the high growth is way higher intensity to my eye and consumes more watts. To get the same par "starting point" would I be better scaling back the intensity slider to get a similar watts consumed reading? I believe at peak the radiant program drew 60 watts. So if I set to 14k and 60 watts would this be about the same or do I run the risk of burning my corals. I would rather not run a acclimation program if I dont have to. I would like to make a small adjustment and change based on the animals response over a few weeks

A suggestion, future updates should include a approximate PAR or Lumen's output, so when changing programs we don't burn our corals. I know its not that simple but something in the ballpark would be nice.
Thanks for the help

 

[Reefer PT]

Nobody? I can't be the only one who ever switched programs.

 

[Alex Y EcoTech]

Reefer,

I would recommend reducing the overall brightness to prevent harming your corals further.

 

[Reefer PT]

Thats what I'm asking about. The overall brightness seems much brighter on high growth then on radiant color when set to the same setting. Is that just because blue seems less bright to our eyes and there is more white in the high growth? I've switched back to radiant color and just upped the intensity but would like to up the growth rate in the tank a bit but don't want to burn.
Thanks

 

[aqua1dude]

That is a great suggestion Reefer. It would be nice if Ecotech had an estimator that would allow someone to enter the tank depth, height of light, intensity, model of light and light modifiers (wide angle). That info combined should provide the potential PAR values at different levels of the tank. It may not be an exact calculator but it would be great to see ballpark values.

 

[Mr.4000]

This is what your looking for http://www.aquaticlog.com/radion

 

[aqua1dude]

Thanks mr. 4000