Reefbreeders/(Evergrow OEM) Fixtures D120/IT20** series

i just bought 3 units from ebay with 4 reds per unit instead of two for 175 per, also why i didnt go with reefbreeders. price point. figure also that seller ate 10% in ebay fees. Reefbreeders when they sell through there website dont have to pay the 10% just probably a 10 dollar a month fee to run the website tops. merchant fee would be 3% for both reguardless so im surprised they didnt match it. pm if you want the ebay link.
 
ok.. looking at the it2080. i see evergrow is using three different whites.. thoughts.. is it necessary.. i see RB is not doing that. Im thinking warm and neutral whites are problably they way to go for the whites. ?
 
Does anyone have links to folks who have owned these for more than a year? Before and after growth shots? These lights are very tempting to me. I'm looking to upgrade my AI Sols. But the words "you get what you pay for" keep echoing in my head.

Thanks -

Jeff
 
I'm going to be flanking two photon 16's with one t5 on each side over my 105 gal. I was originally thinking going with 2 blue plus but after playing with my value fixture overt coral qt I'm thinking maybe 2 coral plus would look better. The fixture has a def blue purple hue to me at full power. Any thoughts of what you'd run for those that have these
 
page 18 i think has before and after. there is no 1 year because they are new. 3 months is tops. also unless they break i figure my 175 bucks per shipped units will hold some value.
 
I believe this general discussion on "Chinese LED's" has been going on for well over a year now. Overall I've heard much more good then bad. And even if these lights last 1/2 as long as they are supposed to they are still a quarter of the price of the brand name LED's. I know for myself it could be well worth it as I pay about $230.00 every year to replace my T5 lamps.
 
Thanks moatdaddy and WhiteShark1. Anyone here switch out some old AI Sol Blue's for these? I'm thinking a photon 32 over my 4" 75 gallon. The price is about the same as just updating my Sol's to Vega's - but the biggest selling point to me is the UV. Vega's still don't have these, and from reading Advanced Aquarist, they're vital for coral growth and color. I've put in a couple of cheapo UV stunner strips to accent my Sols and I swear things started coloring and growing better.
 
i wanted more red, to be honest its personal preference. a lot of them on ebay didnt have different colors of white. i went with the ones i did because they had such a nice mix. also i wanted more red because they have found that red will grow algae better for algae turf scrubber, and well marijuana. so hopefully this is the best combo for me.
 

It's not what I would use, but it will work OK. You can do a custom led layout and get a better mix. EG/RB lights use Bridgelux leds and I got mine with 3:2 blue to white and it's not as blue as I would like (which isn't really very blue). If I were ordering again, I'd go 2:1 and maybe even 5:2 blue to white. The white leds really over power the blue. On mine I run 90% power on the blue channel and 40% on the white channel just to get a hint of blue (like 12-14K MH).

BTW, I sold my Eco Tech Radion (1 yr old) and it paid for 2 of my D120 lights in a group buy. I got 5 fixtures (3 different models) for 4 tanks all for $1200. Radions would have cost me $5250-$6000. Yeah, like that's ever going to happen.
 
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It's not what I would use, but it will work OK. You can do a custom led layout and get a better mix. EG/RB lights use Bridgelux leds and I got mine with 3:2 blue to white and it's not as blue as I would like (which isn't really very blue). If I were ordering again, I'd go 2:1 and maybe even 5:2 blue to white. The white leds really over power the blue. On mine I run 90% power on the blue channel and 40% on the white channel just to get a hint of blue (like 12-14K MH).

BTW, I sold my Eco Tech Radion (1 yr old) and it paid for 2 of my D120 lights in a group buy. I got 5 fixtures (3 different models) for 4 tanks all for $1200. Radions would have cost me $5250-$6000. Yeah, like that's ever going to happen.

Which LED's would you swap out and for what kind?
 
Got mine a couple weeks ago, 32" IT2080, for my 48" 55g. Center brace isn't an issue except for the moonlights at night. I have a big dark shadow band across the center of my tank when the moonlights are on. There is some disco effect under the rocks from shading and a little bit if disco shimmer in the top of the rocks (not too noticeable). These are minor complaints, over all I really like the light.
 
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Could I trouble you to send me your program as well?

Get some 120 degree lenses for your moonlights and for all NON-blue and white leds (i.e. UV, violet, red and green). This will give those leds more spread, less disco effect and help spread the moonlights past your center brace. With 90 degree lenses I had gaps between my moonlights too.

Do you want an led layout or my controller/timer schedule & power settings? Truth is, neither would be on much use.

My led color layout was whiter than I wanted at 3:2 blue to white. And probably way whiter than most others would want as I'm not a fan of really blue tanks. I'd be more like 2:1 or even 5:2 if I were doing it again. I have spare leds on order now so I can change some of them from white to blue.

My timer schedule is on early in the morning, starting at 5am, takes 4 hours to ramp up to 90% blue & 40% white for 5 hours and then 5 hours to ramp down to moonlights. But how much power you use depends more on making the corals happy (and being careful not to bleach them). So how deep your tank is, how high off the water your light is, which fixture you have and what corals you are keeping all make power levels different. Your tank is shallower than mine so your PAR may be higher at the same power settings (BE CAREFUL). I spent 6-8 weeks acclimating my tank to these levels and they had 4 250w MH lights before I switched to leds. BTW, I started at 50% & 20% and after awhile started upping the power each week. At 80% & 50% my PAR was where I wanted it but the tanks was too white. So I dropped the white to 40% and a week later raised the blue to 90%.

It's been this way for about 5-6 weeks now. I may bump the blue to 95% and eventually to 100% as long as the corals don't complain (bleaching or reduced growth). So far the corals look happy and I have growth as good as, or better than I had with MH, t5 and leds all together. I have a light green birdsnest frag hanging from a string that 3 months ago wasn't 1" long, broken at one end (and just healed over) and with 3 very tiny stubs at the other. That was when the leds went in. It's a solid 3" or more in diameter now and has 30+ growing tips. You can't tell which end was broken off and which had the 3 stubby tips. It's starting to look like a Christmas ornament hanging in the middle of the tank!
 
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ron on your it2080 did you get 120 degree lenses.. im looking at a couple of these to go over my large reef tank.. going with the 120 lenses on the red and greens.. what about the violets? and as you say the moon got that.

but the whites? and while talking about whites.. do a mix of whites or just neutral whites. thanks
 
Here is a growth shot of some green plate from my reef breeders unit ... top is from 1/27 2nd is from 2/27 and third is from today 3/27...

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