slief
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My tank is doing very well! I love the lights! There are lots of pics in my build thread. I have been keeping it updated fairly regularly.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1783476
Kessil A360WE
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My tank is doing very well! I love the lights! There are lots of pics in my build thread. I have been keeping it updated fairly regularly.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1783476
cvcoda
Member
Slief,
How many Kessils are you running in your tank? I looked at your build thread and your tank is beautiful.
slief
RC Sponsor
Thank you very much. I covered the switch to Kessil later in my thread. It was also covered as part of an LA Fish Guys episode. Those parts in some place later in my thread too.
You are correct. I am running 8 of them on my light rack.
cvcoda
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Wow, that's awesome! I'd like to hear how those SPS do under them.Thank you very much. I covered the switch to Kessil later in my thread. It was also covered as part of an LA Fish Guys episode. Those parts in some place later in my thread too.
You are correct. I am running 8 of them on my light rack.
Philly_Reefer
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I have a kessil a360w over a 60 cube and coral response is amazing Great color.
Update
Update
i continue to be happy with my Kessil lights. Initially I bough three 360WE for my 7 ft display and one 160WE for my frag tank. The latter proved to be too much light, so I moved it up to the main display. I absolutely love the way these lights make the tank look.
I have had some STN issues with a number of my SPS corals. It started around the time I added these new lights, though as it was base up and not bleaching, I believe the problem was unrelated to the light change.
Although I have not yet physically removed them, I am not running the MH lights anymore. I do like the combination of the line-source ReefBreeders LED lights along with the point-source Kessils, though I have gradually set the former from a peak of 90 back to a peak if 60. I am running the Kessils up to 80%.
My camera stinks, so the FTS doesn't come close to capturing how good this tank looks in person.
Update
i continue to be happy with my Kessil lights. Initially I bough three 360WE for my 7 ft display and one 160WE for my frag tank. The latter proved to be too much light, so I moved it up to the main display. I absolutely love the way these lights make the tank look.
I have had some STN issues with a number of my SPS corals. It started around the time I added these new lights, though as it was base up and not bleaching, I believe the problem was unrelated to the light change.
Although I have not yet physically removed them, I am not running the MH lights anymore. I do like the combination of the line-source ReefBreeders LED lights along with the point-source Kessils, though I have gradually set the former from a peak of 90 back to a peak if 60. I am running the Kessils up to 80%.
My camera stinks, so the FTS doesn't come close to capturing how good this tank looks in person.
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I just added new three A360WE to my two Evergrow A6 lights. Corals seem to be ok with the change except the a small ritteri anemone moves to shade area and a umbrella leather coral, it close up for two days already.
What is accumulation setting do you recommand?
Kessil color peaks at 80% with intensity at 45% and two Evergrow lights have turned half way down.
What is accumulation setting do you recommand?
Kessil color peaks at 80% with intensity at 45% and two Evergrow lights have turned half way down.
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It was just a temporary hanging setup, and I was overconfident in it. The tank it's currently on is not long for this world, I'll be upgrading soon (hence the massive lighting purchase).
Zacktosterone
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I came back to the kessil after owning an ATI LED Powermodule. not that the power module is bad in any way but I feel kessil has more potential in the aspect of LEDS. T5'S can always be supplemented but they don't always need them.
sorry.... i just felt like jumping in
sorry.... i just felt like jumping in
Coelli
New member
Copying and pasting my post from another forum -
I have been trying to figure out how to do moonlighting with two Kessils mounted to EMT conduit and here it is!
It's a cheap 10-led USB light from eBay; it has about 10" of gooseneck. It was too bright and white so I added a strip of blue vinyl over 9 of the LEDs (I might re-do this so the exposed light is in the middle). The light is perfect and the shimmer is absolutely amazing. I bought a USB extension and plugged it into a USB wall wart. Just wanted to offer this up as a moonlighting solution. I'll post pics of it in action once it's permanently mounted.
Total cost around 8 bucks.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui9udnzx8eU
Chrisjbarry
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Coelli
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They make LED rings made to go around camera lenses for macro photography. I've idly considered whether they could be converted for moonlight use but am too lazy.
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