RADIONS PAR CHART UPDATED...includes spectrums

[Eastamherstbias]

The numbers look good but are your corals really blasted by that much light at the top of your rocks.
Leds are good and the ecotech programming is second to none but the spread on the light is its weakness
The Gen 2 seems to blow the Gen 1 with tir out of the water

Well directly under any light source will be blasted with light. I just put high light sucking SPS under the clusters.

 

[Bugger]

And what happens when they grow out

 

[Eastamherstbias]

And what happens when they grow out

Ha, well I have 60 gallons of Frag Tanks off my basement sump. The reason my display tank never looks filled in is because I am constantly pruning my corals and moving down the clippings to the basement frag tanks. I don't have the patience to leave my tank untouched for years. Every 8 months I want to redo the rock work and try something new.

 

[Bugger]

Can you redo with numbers not directly under the cluster so we can see what the numbers are

 

[Eastamherstbias]

Unfortunately, I don't have that capability. I just borrow the par meter once a year. Ecotech has those intensity maps with the par circles which would help you and it is the same thing you are looking for. Doing what you want will take a ton of points and hard to represent on a picture.

 

[Eastamherstbias]

 

[Bugger]

Well next time you get the PAR meter just measure from the end of the tank and the middle of the tank

 

[Eastamherstbias]

Who knows, I may change where I get the par numbers from when the next radion comes out. But I am guessing it will be a while. I picked those spots because it gives you a starting point and shows true intensity of the system. It is a static spot across all of the light systems I have used a PAR meter on over the years. Also I am not a lab so some areas that you want are blocked by corals and rock.

 

[Eastamherstbias]

My sand is also black so people with white sand will get some added par on the bounce back which I don't get.

 

[trueblackpercula]

This is a great thread thanks for all the information....now all we need is a Graph sharing and we will all be completely happy....

 

[Eastamherstbias]

I think that is coming in the near future?

 

[teamdulski]

This is amazing Austin.

 

[Jscott11]

This is fantastic thanks so much! Great information

 

[Eastamherstbias]

Thank you. I tried to make it easy to read and helpful.

 

[Eastamherstbias]

Update, my monti cap does appear to be darkening on the Pro side of the tank.

 

[csauer52]

Out of curiosity, are these figures corrected or just the raw readings?

 

[Eastamherstbias]

They are the real correct numbers.

 

[csauer52]

Meaning you corrected with the Apogee correction table? Assuming you used the Apogee MQ-200....

How did you do the correction at 12k considering the spectral errors are corrected at each individual wavelength?

 

[Eastamherstbias]

Yes, I have seen that chart and my numbers are corrected based on that but I am not a lab. All of my numbers have been taken by the same PAR meter over the past few years and goal is to help people make decision about coral placement and the different fixtures intensities.
~Austin

 

[csauer52]

Understood Austin. I'm only asking out of curiosity, not being a jerk. (Apologies if it came off that way).