Mars Aqua Chinese LED review (Ebay)

anyone have these just sitting on top of their tank, not hanging?
are there moon lights?

what's everyone using on a 6ft tank, 2 300w?
thanks
 
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So here is my question: these are not programmable at all correct? So on and off. No moonlights. So I would need a different light to run moonlights?
 
MikeyAl said:
So here is my question: these are not programmable at all correct? So on and off. No moonlights. So I would need a different light to run moonlights?
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Correct, No Moonlights and just off and on switches. You would need 2 timers to setup having the lights come off or on at certain times.
 
ultimate125 said:
anyone have these just sitting on top of their tank, not hanging?
are there moon lights?

what's everyone using on a 6ft tank, 2 300w?
thanks
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No moonlights and sitting them on top of the tank would severely limit the light spread and not be ideal. 2 300watt would be fine if you are going to hang them at the recommended 12-16 inches above the water.
 
There's plenty of easy diy hacks you can lookup on YouTube and other places where you can convert them to be able to control them with apex or similar...
 
SNAKEMANVET said:
Has anyone tried to wire these units together to cut down on using so many plug in's.I will be putting 4 of these over my 180,but hate to have 8 cords.
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Did this exact thing. I didn't want 4 wires(2 300W units) down the back of my tank, so I cut the ends off and soldered them together. So I only have 2 cords down the back(1 for each light). Works perfectly fine this way.
 
I got a 1" conduit pipe from home depot, bent it painted it black, fastened it on the side of the stand and hung the lights. This way i have plenty of flexibility with going up and down, left and right...

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I used 1" conduit also and painted it black. However, I used 2 pieces* 10ft piece cut in half* with a 90 degree bend at the top. I mounted them on the back of my stand mounting on the bottom 2x4 and the 2x4 the tank sits on since I built my own stand. I drilled a hole in each one and added an Ibolt so I could hang the lights with the included hangers.

I have the 300watt.
 
Mars Aqua Chinese LED review (Ebay)

I've read through this entire thread and still have a question regarding which units to purchase. All because of my odd shaped tank. I have a 92 gallon corner bowfront. Imagine a quarter cylinder with 3ft radius. The back corner 6" is the overflow so that doesn't need coverage. The front two corners are covered by the opaque plastic frame - 6" of each corner. The front width is 47" neglecting the bow but only has a 35.5" opening because of the frame. The front to back distance that needs coverage is 26".

I am thinking 3 165W. I know it will be overkill but if I just put in two at the front you end up with about 16" of space from midline of the unit to the back overflow which leaves you 4" short.

I figure I will angle the lights as needed to get the coverage in the corners and the angles will reduce shadowing. I have to build a custom canopy anyway so I'll make it tall enough to accommodate hanging these lights high.

I also love the idea of mounting these to pocket door rails to move them out of the way for cleaning.

Any thoughts?


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I need to put 4 of these over a large frag tank. I planned to run all the white spectrum cords into a surge protector (4 total plugs) and that one plug into my apex. Same with blue spectrum, 4 plugs into surge protector, that one into apex. So, on apex, I'm only taking up 2 slots and can program each outlet easily. Any thoughts on this? It looks like 1.3 amps per unit? Is that correct? So I would draw a total of 5.2 Amps if they were all on?
 
I figured I would chime in here as this 43 page and counting thread has made me feel a lot better about purchasing these. http://www.ebay.com/itm/300W-Dimmab...468394?hash=item3ce4ab492a:g:p00AAOSwq19XCw4t

My questions are, my tank is 15ft long 5ft wide, after reading this so I stand correct by saying that I will need 10 of these?? If this is true can these be daisy chained because 20 cords is A LOT for lights...lol.

I saw several pages back an awesome pictorial of how to make the ramping work with Apex...how hard would this be for all the lights?
 
LOU A VILLE said:
Can anyone help me? My Mars Aqua keeps resetting my gfci. Just the blue, I have 2 running and they have been since December. I came home to a powerless tank and found its just the blues cord kicking the gfci. I took the unit apart and everything looks ok, nothing loose or burned looking but I'm far from electrically inclined so that's all I knew to look for. I plugged it back in and it didn't kick the gfci immediately but it did sometime today while I was at work. I did switch the cords from the other unit to eliminate the possibility of a short in a cord.
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Bad driver take it apart and switch the red and black wires from the blue to the white side and see if it trips the gfci. If that is the case and the white now trip your getting moisture in the black driver box over night seal it with silicone around all edges and request new driver from seller. Very easy to do. Or you can leave on the wihte side and turn the blues on for 1/2 your before the whites for the fan can circulate and clear moisture, until you get new driver.
my 2 cents
 
Nic33 said:
I've read through this entire thread and still have a question regarding which units to purchase. All because of my odd shaped tank. I have a 92 gallon corner bowfront. Imagine a quarter cylinder with 3ft radius. The back corner 6" is the overflow so that doesn't need coverage. The front two corners are covered by the opaque plastic frame - 6" of each corner. The front width is 47" neglecting the bow but only has a 35.5" opening because of the frame. The front to back distance that needs coverage is 26".

I am thinking 3 165W. I know it will be overkill but if I just put in two at the front you end up with about 16" of space from midline of the unit to the back overflow which leaves you 4" short.

I figure I will angle the lights as needed to get the coverage in the corners and the angles will reduce shadowing. I have to build a custom canopy anyway so I'll make it tall enough to accommodate hanging these lights high.

I also love the idea of mounting these to pocket door rails to move them out of the way for cleaning.

Any thoughts?


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You could just pull some of the lenses off two of them and that would work, inside helmet? They are plenty bright. Mine are mounted in helmet at 10 inches from surface at only maybe 50%blue and 35% white.
 
I'm going to pick up a 165W unit sometime in the next couple weeks to supplement my halides; I get 300-320 just under the surface of my 75 and 190-210 at the bottom, but was hoping to get closer to or over 400 at the surface. I have room (for now, without canopy surgery) to mount one between the reflectors. From 15-16" up and pulling the lenses (unless otherwise advised!) how bad can I expect the spotlighting to be? The fixture will be perpendicular to the length of the tank, e.g. the 8" side will be facing the viewer.
 
I wish I could see some comparison shots of people who've been using these lights for 3/6/9/12 months.

I've been searching but this thread is so dense..
 
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