Odyssea LED Fixtures!!!

[steve24az]

http://www.aquatraders.com/LED-Light-Underwater-T5-Light-s/22.htm

Prices are incredibly cheap, I imagine the performance is lackluster.

I have a 72" T5 Odyssea light, I love it. I would be interested in trying one of these for the price.

 

[KellerMike]

Bump I'm also curious but what I'm learning is that the watts are way to low

 

[zvonmonet]

its only 6 watt

 

[symon_say]

It should work for a fish only tank.

 

[Honks69]

It looks like aquatraders now has "reef bright" leds for sale

here is the link:

http://www.aquatraders.com/LED-Reef-Bright-p/56215.htm

it says they are 54 watts

can anyone give any opinions on these?

Thanks

 

[olemiss reb]

It looks like aquatraders now has "reef bright" leds for sale

BeamsWork Reef Bright =/= Reef Brite leds

 

[allsps40]

I really doubt these will keep corals alive.

 

[Honks69]

I really doubt these will keep corals alive.

What makes you think this?

If this had a different brand name would people change their opinions?

I have had an odysea t5ho fixture that I got from aquatraders for a few years and it worked good for me so far but I want to change to leds.

I am just looking for specific reasons why these are no good.

Thanks

 

[Voxboy]

It looks like aquatraders now has "reef bright" leds for sale

here is the link:

http://www.aquatraders.com/LED-Reef-Bright-p/56215.htm

it says they are 54 watts

can anyone give any opinions on these?

Thanks

54 led's . 46 10,000ks and 8 actinics. Sounds like it could be pretty yellow.

 

[SkullV]

I really doubt these will keep corals alive.

Depends on what you want to keep. My sump is lit by a Marineland Reef Capable fixture and is keeping Xenia quite happy at the moment.

 

[IronMan72]

I am considering trying either the 36" Freshwater LED Light Fixture or the 36" Reef Bright LED Light Fixtures for my Refugium. Any opinions on these lights for this application? My fuge is a 40G breeder and has chaeto, grape caulerpa, and sea grapes.

 

[xCry0x]

What makes you think this?

If this had a different brand name would people change their opinions?

I have had an odysea t5ho fixture that I got from aquatraders for a few years and it worked good for me so far but I want to change to leds.

I am just looking for specific reasons why these are no good.

Thanks

Here is the info on the smallest 12-16" 33 bulb fixture

Fixture Size: 10.50" x 5.00" x 1.00" (Add 0.65" in height with bracket installed)
LED Count: 33
200 Lumens
Super energy efficient .06 watt LEDs
30x 6500K LEDs
3x Actinic 460nm LEDs
Use less than 1 watt


Pay close attention to the line about 0.06w LEDs.

That is ~ the same as a string of LED x-mas lights from home depot

Now compare that to an expensive LED fixture, they ALL use 3w led lights with optics.

Now look at the lumen output which is 200. Your typical home depot CFL bulb is 800.



The reef version has 1w LEDs, which are still no mention of optics, not to mention 1w leds are typically trash and without optics you wont be able to have PAR below the first 6" of water.

All these are good for is lighting a tank, not growing.

 

[reefermad619]

If its from odyssea, how long til it catches fire!

 

[xCry0x]

If its from odyssea, how long til it catches fire!

Hey now, their MH fixtures turned out to be a good entry level light once they got past the house fire point.

And it is not like they are the first product to ever have some horrible issue, ie toyotas & breaks, suvs & crappy tires.. hell my gf's old blow dryer shot a flame out of the cord one time, now all blow driers have extra solid rubber by the handle.

 

[Bryan]

Was thinking of purchasing one for my nano and replacing the guts with some crees. Looking for a nice cheap unit for the enclosure.

 

[Ghosty427]

Pay close attention to the line about 0.06w LEDs.

Now compare that to an expensive LED fixture, they ALL use 3w led lights with optics. Now look at the lumen output which is 200. Your typical home depot CFL bulb is 800.

The reef version has 1w LEDs, which are still no mention of optics, not to mention 1w leds are typically trash and without optics you wont be able to have PAR below the first 6" of water. All these are good for is lighting a tank, not growing.

Nice! Thanks for that excellent explanation for us LED n0obs. The exact info that I was looking for. I'm still in the MH/T5 combo pricerange, pretty much knew this was too good to be true. Except for a fuge maybe.

 

[jmorgret]

Those specs were for the Freshwater bright not the reef bright.

The smallest reef bright are the 18 to 21 fixture

Fixture Size: 17.00" x 5.00" x 1.00" (Add 0.65" in height with bracket installed)
LEDs Count: 18
1300 Lumens
Super energy efficient*1 watt HQ LEDs
15x 10,000K LED
3x Actinic 460nm LED
Use*18 watts


Not sure if it makes a difference though.

 

[nemosworld]

on a 10 gal tank or 20 long i might say go for it, but on anything deeper, i would not do it unless it was a fish only.
I have a 4 bulb t-5 fixture from them, and the par readings suck. it's growing softies, but i doubt it's doing anything more than keeping the few lps i have in my tank alive. i plan to gut the fixture and put bridgelux leds in there, if my wife lets me keep the tank, she keeps nagging me to get rid of it, since i'm building a bigger one.

if you do buy it, let us know how it goes, and what the color looks like, they say it has actinic blue and 10k white. i hope it's really 10k and not that yellow freshwater look.

 

[ReefTankHunter]

Was thinking, Would those LEDs work for my ant farm.LOL

 

[ONEmorBEER]

I bought (2) of the 48" reef bright fixtures for my 120g. I have LPS and softies only. I'm replacing a 2x250W mh fixture w/ (4) 56w pc's. I've been running on 1 ballast for a year now and that one finally failed so I'm just running the PC's right now. I'll let you all know how they do. Should be delivered next week.