Phillips is coming for your corals

Interesting, about time one of the big LED companies got into the game, I hope my expectations are not set too high!
 
My guess is they'd go into the horticulture market before reef aquarium lighting though.

edit: I signed up for the email updates but never got the promised field test report.
 
It will be very interesting to see what it really is. Marketing hype is so easy to shout from the roof tops. But just how much better will it really be? The 2 biggest issues IMHO are shadowing due to led lenses and disco or colored shadows... and for some, cost. We'll see how they do.

I'll be optimistic since I just swapped out 20 t12 fluorescent bulbs from my garage, kitchen and bathroom for Phillips leds in a fluorescent tube. The bulbs were only $9.95 each and I had to add 10 t8 ballasts at $15 each. But the lights come on when I throw the switch. Fluorescent bulbs don't always fire up so well here. Not sure if it's the heat or the humidity? But these are brighter than new fluorescent daylight bulbs and even a bit 'whiter'. I'm very happy with the switch.

BTW, the other brands offer leds like this that you don't need new t8 ballasts for, but you still have to disconnect the t12 ballast and those bulbs cost $39 each! Yikes! That's $350 with Phillips bulbs and new ballasts or $800 with the other type.
 
Interesting. At the very least, I hope they force other vendors to bring the prices down a bit. LEDs are not that expensive to make, but for some reason, anything to do with reef lighting is always crazy expensive.
 
I believe they already have fixtures over public/commercial large aquaria, but I could be thinking of a different manufacturer. Either way should be a fun entry into the market.
 
I use the Phillips "Warm Glow" LED bulbs throughout my house.. whenever a bulb burns out I replace it with LED (less hit to the pocketbook). The Phillips were the best for me as I have lots of dimmer switches and these work with regular dimmers and dont flicker or hum.

Good that they are getting into the Aquarium industry... always helps to have a large manuf to drive prices down.
 
Bent said:
Hopefully it's not price gouged like the rest of this crap.
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Wishful thinking.. Diode prices aren't cheap either.

Fun part is the fact that Phillips decided to do it on their own.

Guess they were tired of CREE, CREE, CREE.. ;)
 
oreo57 said:
Wishful thinking.. Diode prices aren't cheap either.

Fun part is the fact that Phillips decided to do it on their own.

Guess they were tired of CREE, CREE, CREE.. ;)
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The American fixtures use Cree but European ones use Phillips.

We are talking about the largest and most advanced LED manufacturer in the world though so they will make it interesting.
 
gus6464 said:
We are talking about the largest and most advanced LED manufacturer in the world though so they will make it interesting.
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We'll have to see about that. Since 2010 the Top Ten List has jumped around quite a bit. Since 2014 China finally made the list. Regardless, Philips is WAY up there and with all this competition, it's going to be good for the hobby. Does anyone know who makes the diodes for Kessil?
 
AZRippster said:
We'll have to see about that. Since 2010 the Top Ten List has jumped around quite a bit. Since 2014 China finally made the list. Regardless, Philips is WAY up there and with all this competition, it's going to be good for the hobby. Does anyone know who makes the diodes for Kessil?
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DiCon fiberoptics. Pretty big player as well but not as large as Phillips. Kessil is pretty much the only manufacturer right now who makes the diode in-house as they are a subsidiary of DiCon.

The reason I think the CoralCare light will be a big deal is because of the parent company and you can see from the picture mockup that at least some engineering went into it. A passively cooled light is basically non-existent in our hobby. Only other one is the Sicce AM466.
 
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