Maxspect Ethereal First look

[lambchops]

I'm tagging along as I am considering getting these or AI Hydra HD.

Any updates?

 

[Buzz1329]

I was really interested in lights until viewing CoralVue video giving instructions for connecting lighting system to phone app. For me, connecting using these instructions would be a tad easier than constructing an atom bomb from scratch.

I'm not looking for ramping up and down. I'm interested in selecting day long intensity of each light channel. And then turning the lights on and off, even if I have to do so with a timer on my controller or a light timer, at a set time each day. Can this be done without crash course in programming ANDROID phone?

I was going to post this on CoralVue site on RC, but found that they apparently no longer have a site here? Where have you gone CoralVue? Woo, woo, woo.

Thanks,

Mike

 

[shaginwagon13]

Any updates for these Maxspect Ethereal? I am considering buying them for my all SPS tank and wanted some more reviews from those who have tried them out on an SPS tank.

 

[shaginwagon13]

Anyone?

 

[tmnigat]

I have two of these and they've worked fairly well for me so far. I don't have alot of SPS, but the few frags I do have have grown pretty well in the 8 months I've had these lights. I have a few acro's that have encrusted nicely and started growing their own branches and a chalice that has doubled in size. Also have a montipora that has tripled, i think its just an easy coral though. My tank is less than a year old and still pretty new but going good.

One nice thing, Maxspect recently updated their app for programming the lights. The new app works much better than the old app and so far seems like much an improvement. I think they updated it for the new recurve lights coming out but will take the changes regardless.

 

[shaginwagon13]

I have two of these and they've worked fairly well for me so far. I don't have alot of SPS, but the few frags I do have have grown pretty well in the 8 months I've had these lights. I have a few acro's that have encrusted nicely and started growing their own branches and a chalice that has doubled in size. Also have a montipora that has tripled, i think its just an easy coral though. My tank is less than a year old and still pretty new but going good.

Thanks for the reply. How deep is your tank? I'm looking for LED's with some punch as my tank is 36" deep and I plan to grow SPS. I need a fixture(s) that has the power to provide enough PAR for the lower areas of the tank.

 

[disaster999]

I was really interested in lights until viewing CoralVue video giving instructions for connecting lighting system to phone app. For me, connecting using these instructions would be a tad easier than constructing an atom bomb from scratch.

I'm not looking for ramping up and down. I'm interested in selecting day long intensity of each light channel. And then turning the lights on and off, even if I have to do so with a timer on my controller or a light timer, at a set time each day. Can this be done without crash course in programming ANDROID phone?

I was going to post this on CoralVue site on RC, but found that they apparently no longer have a site here? Where have you gone CoralVue? Woo, woo, woo.

Thanks,

Mike

Theres a few ways you can go about it. You can sort of program the lights to turn on and off, but it will take at least 1 minute for the light to ramp up or down. You can set the program to start up at say 12:00pm and have it at your desired intensity at 12:01pm. Do the same with turning it off by stay start ramping down at 7:59pm and finish by 8:00pm

Another way is to program the lights to have a constant programing meaning the light will stay on all the time, and use your timing to turn the lights on and off. I would recommend against programming the time you want the lights to turn on and use a timer as well since from my observation, if you turn off the lights, the lights will lose it sense of time and would turn on at different times.

I would suggest against not using the controller as its a pain in the *** to program the light without it.

Any updates for these Maxspect Ethereal? I am considering buying them for my all SPS tank and wanted some more reviews from those who have tried them out on an SPS tank.

Maxspect recently updated their app for the light since their previous iterations were REALLY bad. The latest one is by far the easiest to use, but its not perfect. At least you just have to go through it, hopefully once, and never have to set it again.

Heres pictures taken with the Ethereal

 

[shaginwagon13]

Heres pictures taken with the Ethereal

Beautiful tank.

So I decided to go with 400w halides (3 of them which I had from my last tank) and then supplement with LED's. I contemplated for a couple weeks going with LED and T5's, but bulbs are getting increasingly more expensive and harder to find up here in a Canada and then I would also need to rig up moon lights as well. By going with LED's, I would be able to punch down and get the PAR up at the bottom of my tank for SPS growth (as my tank is 36" deep) by using a 10k bulb (which is more yellow) and then adjust the LED unit to tank the tank colour a little more blue while giving the corals enough PAR for good growth. Plus the moonlights would essentially come with the LED units, I'll turn one of the blues on to 1-2% during the night.

I decided to go with Hydra 52 HD (3 of them for now). I wanted a unit that has known punch and power, but I also wanted to buy a unit that was easily able to be monitored over my controller. It was between the new Radions and the Hydra's, people noted that the Radions produced more noise with their fans and also used more power. So I decided on the Hydra's for my first ever dive into the LED world.

 

[TechnicalFisher]

Disasater999- beautiful reef! Would you mind sharing your settings/program that you are using in the Syna-G app? Using an Ethereal over a 24" cube SPS tank and am still struggling a bit to
Find the right settings. Thanks!

 

[disaster999]

Disasater999- beautiful reef! Would you mind sharing your settings/program that you are using in the Syna-G app? Using an Ethereal over a 24" cube SPS tank and am still struggling a bit to
Find the right settings. Thanks!

I have all the blue channels at 100%, the cool whites at 85% and the warm white at 75%. Then program the dawn and sunset setting to your liking. I just took on of their preset and modified it to my needs.

 

[TechnicalFisher]

I have all the blue channels at 100%, the cool whites at 85% and the warm white at 75%. Then program the dawn and sunset setting to your liking. I just took on of their preset and modified it to my needs.

Thanks very much! What kind of photoperiod are you running?

 

[disaster999]

Thanks very much! What kind of photoperiod are you running?

My lights starts to come on at 1pm and slowly ramps up till 2 pm where it will stay there till 9pm and takes 3 hours to slowly ramp back down to zero.

 

[Volcmreefer]

I just upgraded to G4 pros and am selling two of these bad boys soon if anyone is interested.